Today in History: 29 October 1969: The first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. It was the first ever wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. It was established by DARPA of the United States Departmen…
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