Communications · Recorded milestone
Packet switching
Recorded year1965
Paul Baran and Donald Davies propose breaking messages into routable packets.
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- TransistorRecorded · 1947requires
- Information theoryRecorded · 1948enables
- Time-sharingRecorded · 1961enables
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