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ARPANET

Early US network that forms the basis of the Internet. It was set up in 1969 by ARPA to provide services to US academic institutions and commercial organizations conducting computer science research. ARPANET pioneered many of today's networking techniques.

It was renamed DARPANET when ARPA changed its name to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In 1975 responsibility for DARPANET was passed on to the Defense Communication Agency.



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29 at UCLA, the first base of the computing network ARPANET, which later evolved into the digital ocean most of us now surf daily.
Computer speak by Silkin, Steve / Los Angeles Business Journal
Declan McCullagh broke the story in the online Wired News and his Politech e-mail news service, pointing out that Gore was just 21 years old when the Defense Department commissioned the original ARPANET in 1969.
Source code by Postrel, Virginia / Reason
Created in 1969 as a partnership between the ivory towers of academe and the corridors of power at the Pentagon, the original purpose of the Internet carried a Cold War cachet: ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), as it was christened, was to be a network for the exchange of defense-related information.
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