The pioneering research of Paul Baran in the 1960s, who envisioned a communications network that would survive a major enemy attacked. The sketch shows three different network topologies described in his RAND Memorandum, "On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network" (August 1964). The distributed network structure offered the best survivability.


A sketch of the packet switching network in the United Kingdom proposed by Donald Davies, a pioneer in networking in the 1960s. (Source: National Archive for the History of Computing, scanned with permission from Janet Abbate's, "Inventing the Internet", 1999, page 31).

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