Meaning of Arpanet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the world's first operational packet-switching network.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Alternative spelling of ARPANET.
   alt-of, alternative

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Examples

“ARPANET went online in September, 1969, and connected four computers located in California and Utah.”

“The ARPANET was especially important to the Internet project, and was often called the backbone network because it was the central WAN that tied researchers together.”

“It allowed the ARPANET, a single network, to develop into the Internet—an internetwork of hundreds of thousands of networks.”

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