ARPANET

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Famously, Bell Labs managers didn’t see value in the Arpanet, which eventually led to today’s internet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

The Arpanet transmitted information among about 20 academic and corporate labs across the country.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

The first stage is already underway, with the construction of a demonstration quantum network that will connect four cities in the Netherlands — a kind of Arpanet analogue.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2019

In 1969, Heart led a small team of talented young engineers to build the Interface Message Processor, or IMP, a computer whose special function was to switch data among the computers on the Arpanet.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2018

He noted the difficulty of anticipating the effects of orders-of-magnitude growth, reflecting on the twenty years of experience with the Arpanet and Internet.

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