How the Internet Works

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

A brief history and guide to how the Internet works is available for dowload (at no charge) from MakeUseOf.com at this link.  The image below is a diagram of  the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) as of December 1970.  The was the world's first operational packet switching network--the precursor to the Internet. The creation of this network was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and largely based on designs by Lawrence Roberts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.  For more on ARPANET see this Wikipedia article.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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