A field of computing concerned with how machines communicate: the protocols, topologies and physical or wireless links that move data between them. Belongs here: Computer Networking itself, and Internet of Things, whose defining question is how a great many small devices connect and exchange data over a network. Does not belong here: a field about what a connected device computes internally, such as Embedded Systems, filed under Computer Systems Organization, or a field about securing that traffic, filed under Security And Privacy.
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Era of Emergence Networks
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1. Wikipedia: ARPANET
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In 1969, ARPA awarded the contract to build the Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN).
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