How the Internet Works

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Apr 16

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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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How the Internet Works

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