Recalling the ARPANET
Before there was the Internet, there was the ARPANET. The ARPANET was founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense as a prototype of a packet-switched network for connecting computer resources. It would be developed into a coherent computer network and later subsumed into the larger global internetwork—the Internet.
The first connection between a pair of ARPANET hosts was made in October 1969, following the Moon landing in July that same year (with the Woodstock music festival sandwiched somewhere in between). A four-host network appeared in December 1969 and the network was progressively scaled up through the ’70s and ’80s and finally decommissioned in 1990. This was ...
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