THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS 2

2. THE FIRST COMPUTER NETWORK

Soon Arpa was spending milions of dollars. In the 1960s American universities owned computers. They were used for mathematical calculations, and were huge. But the computers couldn't communicate with each other. Bob Taylor was put in charge of the project to join the computers of universities. He said he planned to do it by telephone line!
ARPANET, a net that joined the computers of universities had been built! Vint Cerf and Bob Khann began to write asoftware that allowed different networks to communicate. the program was that every computer use a different network so they couldn't understand one another. Two scientists, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn began to write software that allowed different networks to communicate.