Facts about Birth of the Internet

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   Domain Name System (DNS), which translates human-readable web addresses into numerical IP addresses, was introduced in 1983 by Paul Mockapetris.

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   In 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published the foundational paper introducing TCP, the protocol that governs how data is transmitted across interconnected networks.

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   Packet switching, the foundational technology enabling data to travel across networks in discrete chunks, was developed independently by Paul Baran and Donald Davies in the 1960s.

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   The World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, is distinct from the internet itself, serving as one application built on top of it.

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   ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, sent its first message between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute in 1969.

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