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ARPANET

Packet-switched computer network funded by ARPA from 1969; a forerunner of the internet.

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Dates
1969–1990

The ARPANET was built for ARPA. Its first link, between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, went live on 29 October 1969. It grew into the internet and was retired in 1990.

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  • Packet switching Scholarship & press 2

    ARPANET's planners drew on packet-switching work done in parallel at MIT, at RAND and at Britain's National Physical Laboratory.

Timeline 2 dates
  1. 1969–1990 ARPANET
  2. 1969 DARPA developed ARPANET
Proof 2 sources
  1. ARPANET, DARPA. Primary record
    The foundation of the current internet started taking shape in 1969 with the activation of the four-node network, known as ARPANET
  2. A Brief History of the Internet, Internet Society, 1997. Scholarship & press
    Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design, beginning with the ARPANET as the pioneering packet switching network
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