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Title: @denningScienceComputingARPANET1989 date: 2023-04-05 type: reference project:

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Reference

Denning, PJ. 1989 The Science of Computing: The ARPANET after Twenty Years. American Scientist 77(6): 530–534.

Summary & Key Take Aways

In The Science of Computing(1989), Denning goes in depth through the early creation of the internet, with focus on ARPANET. To build this, he goes through the creation of ARPA and the things that led to what it became and its lasting impressions on the history of the internet. Denning does this to inform us how ARPA changed how we viewed the internet and what computers can be used for.

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