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NORSAR is a foundation established in 1968 as part of the Norway–United States agreement for the detection of and nuclear explosions. About us, www.norsar.no NORSAR History The name derives from the foundation's original project, the Norwegian Seismic Array.
NORSAR was the first non-US site included in ARPANET in June 1973. Its connection went via the Tanum Earth Station in Sweden to the Seismic Data Analysis Center (SDAC) in Virginia, United States. In turn, NORSAR provided the connection point for ARPANET to spread to Peter Kirstein's research group at University College London (UCL) the following month in July 1973. Connecting through NORSAR, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NDRE), along with UCL and RSRE in Britain, were involved in testing TCP/IP. UCL provided a gateway between the ARPANET and JANET, the first heterogenous international computer network. In early 1982, NORSAR and UCL left the ARPANET and began to use TCP/IP over SATNET, becoming two of the first nodes on the Internet.
Since 1999, NORSAR has been an independent research foundation.
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