ARPANET

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In creating ARPANET, researchers developed many of the technologies that over the next few decades formed the basis for the internet we know today.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Future generations may look back on this moment the way we look nostalgically at ARPANET, a pure infant version of the internet, its vast potential yet to be recognized and commercialized.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 3, 2021

ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet, was funded by the Defense Department.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2021

By 1980, 70 institutions and nearly 5,000 users had access to ARPANET, and the U.S. military came to believe that the computer network it was paying for had expanded far beyond its needs or interests.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2018

The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel