From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pnr@planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:24:30 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] ARPAnet now 4 nodes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5DC50DA3-0165-4139-AA3A-30FCA569C2FD@planet.nl> This page: http://www2.lbl.gov/Publications/75th/files/exhibit.html mentions 3 links between LBL and Arpanet: - In 1974, the Lab’s CDC 6600 became the first online supercomputer when it was connected to ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor. - In 1986, when the Internet was on the verge of collapse from congestion, a Berkeley Lab researcher, Van Jacobson, co-developed the congestion control algorithms that allowed the Internet to keep growing. - In 1995, Jacobson and Steven McCanne developed MBone, the first successful software for multiparty audio and video conferencing over the Internet.