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Arpanet
ARPANET was a network for computer communication, generally regarded as the key predecessor of the contemporary Internet, that was created by researchers and engineers working for an information technology development program of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has the mission of maintaining technological superiority of the U.S. military. From the 1960s, it supported work on computer data communications that could be used for both civilian and military purposes. The network was developed in the context of a DARPA program called “Resource Sharing Computer Networks,” initiated in 1969.
The interaction of science (technology development in this case) and politics in the evolution of the ARPANET is of a specialized, nonobvious nature. First, insofar ...
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