Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARPANET

Designed in 1969 as a network to link certain U.S. Department of Defense computers with university computers on campuses performing defense-related research. The ARPANET network became the basis for the Internet.

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