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Most Significant Ideas Of The 20th Century

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To me, the most significant idea of the 20th century was the internet. The internet was made possible by pioneering scientists, programmers, and and engineers. The first actual prototype of the internet that worked was ARPANET. This prototype was made in the early 1960s. ARPANET was an acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Ideas of something similar to the internet came to mind as early as the 1900s, but with different names such as world wireless system and the intergalactic network. This idea started to grow and in the 1970s, Robert Khan and Verton Cerf, who were both scientists, developed Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, also known as TCP and IP. This is “a communications model that set standards
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