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1968

INTERNET EVENTS

• The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created ARPANET, beginnings of the Internet.

• ARPANET, let university computers send data over phone lines using packet switching.

• Packet Switching was a sneaky method that would work even if the Russians bombed the phone line.

• This sneaky method divided each computer message into many little packets and sent the packets over the phone lines intelligently; if a packet couldn't reach its destination directly (because a phone line got bombed), the computer would sneakily switch that packet through different phone lines to different computers (hosts/nodes) that would reroute the packet to its ultimate destination. At the ultimate destination, a computer would automatically make sure all the packets arrived, put them into the proper order, and make any lost (or damaged) packets be retransmitted.

• In the very beginning there were only 4 computers that served as hosts/nodes.

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CURRENT EVENTS

• The first emergency 911 telephone system is installed in New York.

• Green Bay beats Oakland in the second Super Bowl.

• "60 Minutes" debuts on CBS television.

• The cost to mail a 1-ounce, first class letter goes up to 6 cents.

• First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.

• An enormous supply of oil is discovered in Alaska.

• The price of a Hershey bar doubles... to 10 cents.

• Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis.

• Senator and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy is assassinated in California.

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