ARPANET
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See also: ARPAnet
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ARPANET
- (military, networking) Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (the world's first operational packet-switching network)
- 2007, Douglas Comer, The Internet Book […] , Prentice Hall, →ISBN:
- The ARPANET was especially important to the Internet project, and was often called the backbone network because it was the central WAN that tied researchers together.
- 2009, John Cassidy, Dot.Con […] , Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 17:
- It allowed the ARPANET, a single network, to develop into the Internet—an internetwork of hundreds of thousands of networks.