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Society: IEEE Main Category: Electric Sub Category: Era: 1970-1979 DateCreated: 1974-1982 Lincoln Laboratory Lexington State: MA Zip: 02493 Country: USA Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:First_Real-Time_Speech_Communication_on_Packet_Networks,_1974_-_1982 Creator:
In August 1974, the first real-time speech communication over a packet-switched network was demonstrated via ARPANET between MIT Lincoln Laboratory and USC Information Sciences Institute. By 1982, these technologies enabled Internet packet speech and conferencing linking terrestrial, packet radio, and satellite networks.
YearAdded:
2011
Image Credit: Image Caption: Era_date_from: 1974
Society: IEEE Main Category: Electrical Sub Category: Communications Era: 1960-1969 DateCreated: 1969 Computer History Museum Mountain View State: CA Zip: 94043 Country: USA Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969 Creator: Kleinrock, Leonard
"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute. Based on packet switching and dynamic resource allocation, the sharing of information digitally from this first node of ARPANET launched the Internet revolution." (The plaque can be seen at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.) The deployment of the ARPANET set in motion a train of developments that led to the Internet as we know it today.
YearAdded:
2009
Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/FastLizard4 (CC BY-SA 2.0) Image Caption: The original Interface Message Processor, a primitive router, and considered widely to be the beginning (or "birth") of the internet Era_date_from: 1969
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"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute. Based on packet switching and dynamic resource allocation, the sharing of information digitally from this first node of ARPANET launched the Internet revolution." (The plaque… Read More
In August 1974, the first real-time speech communication over a packet-switched network was demonstrated via ARPANET between MIT Lincoln Laboratory and USC Information Sciences Institute. By 1982, these technologies enabled Internet packet speech and conferencing linking terrestrial, packet radio,… Read More

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