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ARPANET connected computers by sending data in packets between network nodes. The discussion follows its early development at UCLA and its expansion as a precursor to the internet.

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37:13>> Unbelievable. We now go to 1969, the birth of what is allowing us to talk to all of you today, the invention of ARPANET. >> Yes. Which led to the internet. This was computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock and his team. They established the first node at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. And they successfully executed the first packaged packetswitched data transmission. And over there on the right on the left hand side is the architecture of Arponet and how you send these digital packets um from one computer to the other. On the right hand side it shows the growth of Arponet. On the upper upper left of that map it's

37:53just got like LA, the Bay Area and Utah randomly. Um pretty soon though the entire country was rigged up and pretty soon the entire world. >> Los Angeles is not only the birth of Hollywood, it is the birth of the

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