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Overview of the ARPANET

Overview of the ARPANET

Learn about the first public packet-switched computer network: the ARPANET.

ARPANET

Before there was the internet, there was the ARPANET. The ARPANET was founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense as a prototype of a packet-switched network for connecting computer resources. It would be developed into a coherent computer ...