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26 June 2026

  • curprev 19:0419:04, 26 June 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 855 bytes +855 Network connecting computers globally. By 1969, the first four nodes were operational at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. The network's architecture reflected a radical departure from the telephone network's circuit-switching model. Where telephone networks established dedicated connections for the duration of a call, ARPANET used packet switching — breaking data into discrete packets that traveled independently across the network and reass...