Arpanet: 50 years of internetworking

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A 50 year history of networks: 1973 - The network of networks

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In 1973 Vint Cerf presented a paper he co-authored with Robert Kahn, titled "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection", to a  special meeting of the INWG (International Network Working Group) at Sussex University. The paper described a method to communicate across a network of networks. The protocol described, now known as TCP/IP, is embedded into every aspect of modern society.

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