Historical Maps of ARPANET and the Internet Courtesy of:

The map above shows the topology of ARPANET in March 1977. It was scanned by Larry Press from the ARPANET Completion Report , Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Burlington, MA, January 4, 1978.

ARPANET grew rapidly as more sites are connected. The map above shows the situation in September 1971and the one below is from October 1980, which includes a packet satellite link UCL in London. (Sources : "Casting the Net", page 64; CCR, page 93)

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