The physical network was constructed by the end of 1969 during the Vietnam War, linking four nodes: University of California Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, the University of Utah and the University of California Los Angeles. ... A new protocol was introduced, Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) which was a newer version of the NCP was developed by a group headed by Vinton Cerf from Stanford and Bob Kahn from DARPA. ...

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The university won't survive as residential institution. ... It doesn't mean that our actual university will vanish in future. Many "virtual universities" are based on actual universities to use their resource. ... The actual university will use the best of the virtual university. ... Examples include the Wide Area Information Service, Archie (which spawned a company called Bunyip in Canada), LYCOS from Carnegie Mellon, YAHOO from Stanford, and INFOSEEK. ...

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The U.S. defense department hired ARPA, and they first connected computers at Stanford Research Institute in California, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the University of Utah (Microsoft Encarta 98). ... As ARPANET grew in the 1970s, with more and more universities and institutions connecting to it, users found it necessary to establish standards for the way that data was transmitted over the network. ... The NSFNet soon connected to the CSNET, which linked Universities around North America, and then to the EUnet, wh...

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Through a trial of testing in 2009 by a trio of Stanford University researchers, they proved that more people who multitasked did worse with distraction than the people who rarely multitasked (Conley, 1). ...

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GENERAL INFORMATION In the late 1970's two Stanford university sweethearts created the first router out of frustration. Sandra Lerner of the Business Department, and Leonard Bosack, of the Computer Science Department wanted to send love letter to each other via the University computer system e-mail. ...

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