Paul Baran, early internet engineer and architect, passes away at 84

Most of you can not believe it, however the internet as we all know it didn’t really exist a trifling two decades ago. Paul Baran, an engineer of the ARPANET (an early attempt at networked internet) has passed on to the great beyond today on the age of 84. Because the father of packet-switching — the foundation of all online information exchanges — he was initially scoffed at by major communications players like AT&T, who thought the tech was too advanced to be realized on the time. However, after america Department of Defense saw the desire for an outstanding large-scale information network following WWII, the ARPANET was eventually — and successfully — built in response to these packet-switching concepts and ultimately evolved to form the present interweb as we all know it.

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