What was the first wide-area packet network with distributed control, becoming the foundation for internet? It was initiated in 1966 by Bob Taylor at the United States Department of Defense. First computers were connected in 1969 and in the beginning of 1970s network applications became possible with implementation of Network Control Program, remote login through Telnet, file transfer protocol FTP and many more. With establishment of email, network traffic began to grow. After initial usa of NCP, this network later transitioned to the TCP/IP protocol suite. The initial configuration linked four sites for testing - UCLA, ARC, UCSB and University of Utah.
Answer to yesterday's question: "IBM", International Business Machines. In addition to previously mentioned inventions, in 1969 Forrest Parry of IBM invented the magnetic stripe card, so common today for our debit/credit cards. IBM pioneered the manufacture and software for the cards processing systems was essentially exclusively run on IBM machines.
IBM started restructuring its company during the 1990s with the aim of increasing manageability, and as a result the so-called "Baby Blues" plan was devised with partially being implemented. One known example of a blue is the "Deep Blue", computer which was the first to beat a world champion, who at that time was Garry Kasparov.
A similar smart machine "Watson" was exhibited in 2011 at Jeopardy! - winning against human champions. IBM Watson, developed as part of DeepQA, was good at answering questions posed in natural language. Though, given the time point, it was not utilizing deep neural networks. Watson was named after the company founder and first CEO Thomas J. Watson.