id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-1784 Inventing the Internet [Review] .html text/html 499 25 52 Packet switching proved to be a success but as Abbate points out, it is hard to say if packet switching made ARPANET a success or if ARPANET made packet switching a success. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate tells the tale of the creation and evolution of the Internet beginning in the late 1960s with the development of a revolutionary concept for transferring data called packet switching developed simultaneously by Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation in the U.S. and Donald Davies of the National Physics Laboratory in Great Britain. cache/istl-1784.html txt/istl-1784.txt