In 1969 a company called Bolt Barenek and Newman won the contract to develop a communication network called ARPANET that would enable scientists and researchers to use each other's computer facilities. During its development, an engineer named Roy Tomlinson started to experiment with the coding of two programs. SNDMSG allowed members of the same network to exchange messages among one another,whereas CPYNET allowed file transfers to occur between two separate networks. It occurred to Tomlinson that by combining the two he could create a system that would make message transfer possible between different user s of independent networks.
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