Paul Baran, Centralized, decentralized, and distributed networks, 1962
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created
1964-08
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2024-06-19
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This diagram was published in the military memorandum RM-3420-PR "On Distributed Communications - I Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks". Paul Baran is regarded as one of the precursor architects of the Internet. This diagram explains the principle of a decentralised network as implemented in the ARPANET (which he helped to set up) and still used today for the Internet we use.
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- © Rand Corporation, droits réservés
- National Security Archive
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