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The First Four Nodes on the ARPANET Extend as Far As Utah

12/5/1969
Map of the first 4 nodes on the ARPANET
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By December 5, 1969 the ARPANET consisted of four nodes:

1. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where Leonard Kleinrock had established a Network Measurement Center. 

2. The Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center, where Douglas Engelbart had created the ground-breaking NLS system, a very important early hypertext system.

3. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics Center. 

4. The University of Utah's Computer Science Department, where Ivan Sutherland had moved.

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