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ARPANET

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The internet's daddy

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  • Developer: Unknown
  • Release Date: 11/1969
  • Twitter: Unknown
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Summary

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) is the daddy of the internet. It was a U.S. military project made to transfer information quickly. It became the basis for the internets that we know and love today.

Origins

As the United States and Soviet Union started an arms race during the Cold War, the U.S. realized that it needed a way to transfer information quickly.

ARPANET opened in 1969. The first four nodes of the network were University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), University of Utah, and Stanford University.

The kids who created Usenet referred to it as a "poor man's ARPANET."

Current status

After the National Science Foundation Network opened in the mid-1980s, ARPANET was closed.

Facts

  • In 1978 the first spam email ever was sent over ARPANET by Gary Thuerk



Related Pages

United States
Usenet


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