ARPANET

alternative ARPAnet

1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the world's first operational packet-switching network.

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

   2001, Bryan Pfaffenberger, Computers in Your Future, Pearson College Division, →ISBN, page 267

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   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.

   2007, Douglas Comer, The Internet Book […] , Prentice Hall, →ISBN

   It allowed the ARPANET, a single network, to develop into the Internet—an internetwork of hundreds of thousands of networks.

   2009, John Cassidy, Dot.Con […] , Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 17

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ARPANET.