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Paul Baran originally invented the packet switching concept in the early 1960's. Donald Davies also independently invented the idea a few years later. Then, Leonard Kleinrock conducted early research in the related field of digital message switching. He also helped build the ARPANET, the world's first packet switching network.
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∙ 13y agoIn all actuality packet-switching had a few contributors. Paul Baran was one of the first people to theorize about packet switching, but never to implement his ideas. Around the same time as Baran, Davies was also a contributor as well as Leonard Kleinrock who worked for DARPA, the precursor to the internet today. These men were all great contributors to packet switching but I find that Kleinrock and Baran were the most influential to the development of packet-switching, Baran being the theorizer and Kleinrock being the modifier and implementer of packet-switching.
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