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Former good articleHistory of the Internet was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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In the "Internet Governance" section, in the "NIC, InterNIC, IANA, and ICANN" subsection, in the last paragraph, the IAB is mentioned with no expansion of the acronym. The simplest fix would be to link it to the Internet Architecture Board page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Architecture_Board MarshallWilensky (talk) 16:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Whizz40 (talk) 07:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add source for the commercial restrictions of ARPANET

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Hi, if someone allowed to edit the page could link to https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA164353.pdf as a source for the "unrelated commercial use was strictly forbidden" sentence in History of the Internet#From ARPANET to NSFNET ? Erus Iluvatar (talk) 15:09, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Whizz40 (talk) 07:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introduced to data communication

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When was network model invented and by which organisation 41.203.190.126 (talk) 11:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's explained in the first few paragraphs of the lede. Is something missing? cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 19:22, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Donald Davies was Preceded by Paul Baran

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From the Engineering and Technology History Wiki "RAND Corporation researcher Paul Baran wrote an eleven-volume analysis, “On Distributed Communications,” for the Air Force in August 1964. The Air Force wanted to build a communication system that would not fail if one of its nodes was destroyed. Distributed networks had the virtue of being survivable because they have no critical central components. ... In 1965, Davies of the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom, designed a store-and-forward packet switching system. In a June 1966 proposal, he coined the term “packet” to describe the 128-byte data blocks that would flow through the system. Only after distributing this research in Britain did Davies learn that Baran had made a similar proposal in 1964."

If your going to give both of them credit I feel it's only fair to mention that Baran did in fact precede Davies. AgentChicken32 (talk) 23:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, that's correct. The Wikipedia article does say this as well, in both the lead and the body. See History of the Internet#Packet switching. However, Paul Baran didn't build a network, whereas Davies built the local-area NPL network, see History of the Internet#NPL network. Baran is prominently discussed on the main article on Packet switching. Whizz40 (talk) 06:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]