First computer network ever built (17h 19min, apr 15, 1965 y – 15h 44min, sep 6, 1965 y)

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Working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. As a result of this experiment was that the time-shared computers could work together, running programs and retrieving data on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job. Kleinrock’s conviction of the need for packet switching was confirmed.

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