The Packet Radio Van was a GMC van refitted by Don Cone at SRI International, and equipped with technology that was used in the first two-way internetworked transmission on August 27, 1976, and the first three-way internetworked transmission on November 22, 1977, the latter of which is considered the start of the Internet.
SRI's Packet Radio Van
SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region.
Entrance to SRI International headquarters in Menlo Park
SRI participant Paul Magill discussing the smog on Black Friday in Los Angeles at the first National Air Pollution Symposium in 1949
The ERMA system, which uses magnetic ink character recognition to process checks, was one of SRI's earliest developments.
The first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by Bill English