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• ARPANET
  ARPANET

  noun

  Advanced Research Projects Agency Network: a network of computers, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s, that pioneered data transfer in packets and the Internet Protocol; a precursor to the internet.
• Arpanet
  Arpanet

  An acronym for A dvanced R esearch P roject A gency Net work. An early communications network developed by the Department of Defense in the late 1960s. It connected high-tech research institutions and the military.

ARPANET

American  

[ahr-puh-net] / ˈɑr pəˌnɛt /

Or ARPAnet

noun

Computers.

1. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network: a network of computers, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s, that pioneered data transfer in packets and the Internet Protocol; a precursor to the internet.

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ARPANET Scientific  

/ är′pə-nĕt /

1. 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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Arpanet Cultural  

1. An acronym for A dvanced R esearch P roject A gency Net work. An early communications network developed by the Department of Defense in the late 1960s. It connected high-tech research institutions and the military.

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Arpanet is often spoken of as a precursor of the Internet.

Creating a communications system that could survive a nuclear war was a major impetus behind the development of this system.

Etymology

Origin of ARPANET

First recorded in 1970–75