Editing Packet switching (section)

====Telenet====
[[Telenet]] was the first FCC-licensed [[public data network]] in the United States. Telenet was incorporated in 1973 and started operations in 1975. It was founded by [[Bolt Beranek & Newman]] with [[Lawrence Roberts (scientist)|Larry Roberts]] as CEO as a means of making packet switching technology public. Telenet initially used a proprietary [[Virtual circuit]] host interface, but changed it to X.25 and the terminal interface to X.29 after their standardization in [[CCITT]].<ref name=":2A">{{cite journal|last1=Roberts|first1=Dr. Lawrence G.|date=November 1978|title=The Evolution of Packet Switching|url=http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch10_Roberts_EvolutionPacketSwitching_IEEE_1978.pdf|journal=IEEE Invited Paper|access-date=September 10, 2017|archive-date=December 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231092936/http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch10_Roberts_EvolutionPacketSwitching_IEEE_1978.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It went public in 1979 and was then sold to GTE.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Electronic post for switching data|first=Timothy|last=Johnson|journal=New Scientist|date=May 13, 1976}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1109/MCOM.2012.6194380|last1=Mathison|first1=S.L.|last2=Roberts|first2=L.G.|last3=Walker|first3=P.M.|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6194380|title=The history of telenet and the commercialization of packet switching in the U.S.|journal=IEEE Communications Magazine|date=May 2012|volume=50|issue=5|pages=28–45|s2cid=206453987}}</ref>