By David C. Walden In late 1968, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense announced the award to Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN) of a competitively procured contract to develop the backbone of packet switches for the ARPANET. The ARPANET initially consisted of packet switches called Interface Message Processors … Continue reading Dave Walden, Looking back at the ARPANET effort, 34 years later – Internet History