Internet 50th Anniversary/ARPANET in the Congressional Record

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Great inventions are rarely recognized when they emerge, and perhaps it is not surprising that the first Congressional acknowledgment of ARPANET came 11 years after it ended. This exhibit presents a complete list of these acknowledgments with brief explanations and excerpts but without comment.

And for more than 20 years, DARPA has been at the leading edge in computer networking, developing ARPANET, the first national computer network, in the late 1960's, and now working on networks that are millions of times faster.

JOSEPH MARKOWITZ

...Dr. Markowitz is no stranger to open sources or the Internet as he was a Group Manager at Bolt Beranek Newman, Inc., when the original ARPANET was being developed there in the late 1960's.

Of course, DARPA's success has not been limited to military innovation. ARPANET, the world's first operational packet switching network, led to the development of today's Internet. Since DARPA engineers first started to connecting remote computers to each other to talk about their shared ideas and work, the Internet has revolutionized the world with the creation of endless possibilities.

Networking and information technology, that technology that is vital but obviously sometimes drives us all crazy, sometimes outright batty, but it plays a critical role in our everyday lives, often in ways we do not even realize. Federal R&D investment in NIT has produced such computer breakthroughs as ARPAnet, the forerunner of the modern Internet, communications protocols to transmit data over networks, supercomputing, the Web browser, and the computer mouse, just to name a few. Multidisciplinary innovations include the decoding of the human genome, modeling and simulation of complex physical systems for aircraft, automobiles, power grids and pharmaceuticals, near real-time weather forecasting and climate models, and unmanned aerial vehicles and search and rescue robots.

...I wonder if Drs. Kleinrock and Engelbart ever imagined the full impact and transformative nature of their experiment, not only on California and the United States, but also the world?...

John Vittal--3 RFCs; Creator of the first integrated email program (MSG) and the initial ``killer application on the ARPAnet/Internet; Developed email standards still in use today.

Stephen Wolff--Builder of NSFNET as a successor to ARPANET and for its transition to carrying commercial traffic, enabling the Internet as we know it today; Internet Hall of Fame Inductee--2013.

DESIGNATING OCTOBER 29, 2013, AS NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION DAY TO RECOGNIZE THAT TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IS CRITICAL TO THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY AND COMMEMORATING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF INNOVATION TO PROSPERITY IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD

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Whereas the Internet, an incredible invention that emerged at the end of the 20th century, continues to revolutionize life and pave the way for new industries, businesses, and industrial leaders;

Whereas in the course of completing a project funded by the United States Government, a partnership of universities invented the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the Internet, demonstrating the creative power of focused government action magnified by the effort of individuals in the United States;

Whereas on October 29, 1969, 2 computers, 1 at the University of California, Los Angeles and the other at the Stanford Research Institute, exchanged electronic messages or[1] ARPANET for the first time; and

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