Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DOD) to create America's

lead in science and technology. The Internet had its humble beginnings here,

The Internet has become one of the key symbols of today's pop culture:

everything has a "dot com" address; people do not say "call me," but instead its

"I'll E-mail you;" and the new word on the stock market is "E-business." The

Internet has not always been such a key figure in American life; in fact it was

The theory for the Internet first started being published in 1961 with

Leonard Kleinrock's document on packet-switching theory, "Information Flow in

Large Communication Net." This document presented the theory behind the first

problem of the Internet, and how to solve it1. The problem was this: when a

large document is sent then pieces of it become lost in transfer and the entire

document has to be resent, but then different pieces are missing from the new

copy of the document. This is a major problem and the obvious solution is to

computer-computer chat occurs and is demonstrated at the International

SIGMA7 operating system. The second node was setup on October 1, 1969, at

with this was by having the network bounce the information around without it

system. The fourth, and final, node of the ARPAnet was put at University of

Interconnection" that outlined, in detail, a design of a Transmission Control

corrupted or missing and the transmitting computer then re-sends the lost

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