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								tags: [internet, ARPANET, ARPA]
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								created: Monday, October 28, 2024
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								# 4a3dc316_key_figures_ARPANET
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								- [Paul Baran](385af4b4_Baran_distributed_networks.md) for his work at RAND on
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								  distributed networks as an alternative to the extant
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								  centralised/de-centralised phone networks.
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								- Donald Davies at the UK Physical Laboratory for developing ideas on
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								  #packet-switching, similar to but derived independently of Baran's work.
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								- Bob Kahn as the principle designer of the ARPANET, who with Vint Cerf, wrote
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								  the TCP/IP protocols. Became director of the Information Processing Techniques
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								  Office within ARPA/DARPA.
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								- Vint Cerf was head of the International Networking Group and worked on the
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								  Network Control Protocol (the first protocol for packet switching using the
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								  IMPs). Later joined up with Kahn on TCP/IP and the network of packet-switching
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								  networks (early internet).
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