GalaxyNet.com provides Internet service and email accounts in Seattle, WA
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Galaxynet :: About the Internet
The Internet was started in 1969 under a contract led by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). The contract was carried out by MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, California were added. By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve University were added. In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the Univerity of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.
The Internet was designed to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.
The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, and scientists. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist, had to learn to use a very complex system.
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- Redmond WA
- United States 98052
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