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jan 1, 1961 - Leonard Kleinrock Pioneers Packet-Switching

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Leonard Kleinrock pioneers the packet-switching concept in his Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral thesis about queueing theory: Information Flow in Large Communication Nets. Packet Switching is essential to the function of the modern internet. Without it the internet would be MUCH MUCH slower if usable at all.

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jan 1, 1961
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~ 65 years ago

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