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Home / Timeline Items / ARPAnet Design Begins
8 October 2012

ARPAnet Design Begins

Lawrence Roberts leads ARPAnet design discussions and publishes first ARPAnet design paper: “Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication.”  Wesley Clark suggests the network is managed by interconnected ‘Interface Message Processors’ in front of the major computers. Called IMPs, they evolve into today’s routers.

Lawrence Roberts leads ARPAnet design discussions and publishes first ARPAnet design paper: “Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication.”  Wesley Clark suggests the network is managed by interconnected ‘Interface Message Processors’ in front of the major computers. Called IMPs, they evolve into today’s routers.

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