dec 1, 1969 - The Contract
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BBN Went Online
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-Initially Arpanet was connected to four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah)
-The contract carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December
-By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were added
-By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon,, and the Case-Western Reserve U were added
-In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in
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