• Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, two computer scientists, are credited with creating the Internet communication protocols we use today, as well as the system known as the Internet.
• Long-distance networking between computers was first performed in a 1969 experiment by two research teams at UCLA and Stanford, prior to the present generation of the Internet.
• It was also the first time 'packet switching,' a means of transmitting data between two computer systems, was put to the test. Information is divided into smaller 'packets' of data, which are then carried through numerous channels and reassembled at their destination.

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