1960
1966
March 8, 1965
The U.S. enters the Vietnam War.
April 4, 1968
MLK is assassinated.
June 6, 1968
RFK is assassinated.
Early 1960's
Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation publishes a series of papers on how to create data networks and explores the topic of packets, or what he calls “message blocks.”
March 16, 1966
Donald Watts Davies presents a public lecture in London, in which he talks about the concept of sending packets through a network.
Computer history
World history
August 1965
Rand recommends to the Air Force that it build a distribu-ted switching network. But when AT&T turns down the Air Force’s offer to build the network, Baran halts his work in fall 1965.
1965
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1993
April 30, 1993
The World Wide Web launches.
January 20, 1969
Nixon is inaugurated.
July 20, 1969
The first humans land on the moon.
October 29th, 1969: First message sent from UCLA to SRI (Lo and behold)
Spring 1969
BBN is awarded a contract to build the Arpanet.
1969
October 29th, 1969
The first message is sent from UCLA to SRI (LO).
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1996
2001
January 20, 1969
Nixon inaugurated
2000
January 2001
Donald Davies’s paper
“An Historical Study of the Beginnings of Packet Switching” publishes posthumously.
July 20, 1969
Moon landing
May 28th, 2000
Donald Davies dies.
1996
Len Kleinrock sets up a webpage on UCLA’s site that describes him as the ''inventor of the Internet technology'' and credits him with ''having created the basic principles of packet switching.''
October 29th, 1969: First message sent from UCLA to SRI (Lo and behold)
October 29th, 1969: First message sent from UCLA to SRI (Lo and behold)
