ARPANET

• ARPAnet

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.pəˌnɛt/

ARPANET

1. (military, networking) Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (the world's first operational packet-switching network)
   • 2001, Bryan Pfaffenberger, Computers in Your Future, Pearson College Division, →ISBN, page 267:

     ARPANET went online in September, 1969, and connected four computers located in California and Utah.

   • 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.

• ARPA

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