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Computer networking as we know it today may be said to have gotten its start with the Arpanet development in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prior to that time there were computer vendor “networks” designed primarily to connect terminals and remote job entry stations to a mainframe. But the notion of networking between computers viewing each other as equal peers to achieve “resource sharing” was fundamental to the arpanet design [1]. The other strong emphasis of the Arpanet work was its reliance on the then novel technique of packet switching to efficiently share communication resources among “bursty” users, instead of the more traditional message or circuit switching.
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Sunshine, C.A. (1989). A Brief History of Computer Networking. In: Sunshine, C.A. (eds) Computer Network Architectures and Protocols. Applications of Communications Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0809-6_1
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