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ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

(ARPANET, Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) Developed by the US Department of Defense during the cold war. ARPANET was designed to survive nuclear attacks: the authority was distributed over a large number of geographically dispersed computers, so that - even if most servers were destroyed - the remaining servers would be able to continue on. This computer network concept was the basis of the Internet.

Permanent link ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network - Creation date 2020-06-17


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