Advanced Projects Research Agency Network

The Internet
Vocabulary Term #146

Proper noun (thing)

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ARPANET (Advanced Projects Research Agency Network)
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developed by the US military for defense purposes, this was the first global network with packet switching
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"The current public Internet owes a big debt to ARPANET, which was the original global network."
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