One Of The Internets Founding Fathers, Larry Roberts, DEAD @ 81

As a manager at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) he was involved in the design team that was responsible for the precursor of the interet, Arpanet, in the 1960s.

Packet switching, a technology that divides data into separate bundles to be sent via a path on a network and constructed at their destination. Roberts determined that this concept be central to Arpanet’s design.  The modern day internet still functions with this basic concept.  

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