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<big><b>[[Jon Postel]]</b></big>

<big><b>[[ARPANET]]</b></big>

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[[Jon Postel|Jonathan Bruce Postel]] (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) made many significant contributions to the creation of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. The Economist dubbed him the "God" of the Internet, and many still refer to him as the network's principal founder. He is largely known for being the Editor of the [[RFC]] document series, and for managing the creation and allocation of [[Top Level Domain]]s and [[IP Address]]es in the pre-[[ICANN]] era. When he passed away he was the Director of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute's Computer Network Division; he led a staff of 70. He pioneered many initiatives, which led to creation of the modern Internet and its governing body, ICANN; he established [[IANA]], ICANN's precursor and the current Internet numbering authority.

'''ARPANET''' ('''Advanced Research Project Agency Network''') was the original and first world-wide packet-switching network, originally created by a small team of research experts funded by [[DARPA]] in the United States Department of Defense.

 

The basis of the academic research for ARPANET started with Paul Baran, a researcher from RAND, Inc., who would one day be considered one of the fathers of the Internet. In 1962, Baran suggested that a more robust communications network using redundancy and digital technology be designed. Although his idea was dismissed by many, Baran continued to work on developing the idea with colleagues at RAND. He envisioned a method of distributed communications wherein a network of unmanned nodes would serve as switches to route information from one node to another until the information reached its final destination. He later developed packet switching, a method of dividing information into "message blocks"  before sending them out to a network. Each message block was to be sent separately and then rejoined as a whole when reaching the final destination.

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<div style="float:right;"><small><strong>Related: [[ARPANET]] - [[IAB]] - [[RFC]]</strong></small></div><div style="clear: left;"></div></div>

<div style="float:right;"><small><strong>Related: [[DARPA]] - [[TCP/IP]] - [[RFC]]</strong></small></div><div style="clear: left;"></div></div>

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