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ARPANET

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ARPANET  (ärp-nt)
A computer network developed by the Advanced Research Project Agency (now the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) in the 1960s and 1970s as a means of communication between research laboratories and universities. ARPANET was the predecessor to the Internet.


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The massive computers crashed, leaving "LO" as the first message sent via ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor.
Forty years ago this October, two computers connected to form the ARPANET and launch the world's first successful packet- switched wide area computer network.
Now that doesn't seem similar at all to the internet that we know today, but it was the first node in ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the computer network that gave birth to the internet.
 
 
 
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