The ARPANET was origin of today's Internet. In an independent development, Donald
Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory developed the concept of packet switching in
the early 1960s, first giving a talk on the subject in 1965, after which the teams in the new
field from two sides of the Atlantic ocean first became acquainted. It was actually Davies'
coinage of the wording packet and packet switching that was adopted as the standard
terminology. Davies also built a packet-switched network in the UK, called the Mark I in
1970. Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the private contractors for
O boy, you still dey Jos?
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