ARPANET Timeline of Events

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ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network , was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet...

Timeline of Events

1969

10.29.1969

The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

11.21.1969

The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

1978

5.3.1978

The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.