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ARPANET
Title: ARPANET
Category: Science & Technology
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ARPANET
The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In the late 1960’s the U.S. military was desperately afraid of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. The United States formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense to establish a bombproof network to connect military bases. ARPANET’s physical network was established in 1969 to enable universities and research organizations to exchange information freely. The first two nodes that formed …showed first 75 words of 670 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 670 total…embryo from which the Internet grew. The government fostered and encouraged the growth of private Internet corporations. Today the Internet spans across all 7 continents and connects the whole world with some clicks of a mouse and typing at the keyboard.
Bibliography
Books
1.)Casting the Net: From Arpanet to Internet and Beyond (Unix and Open Systems Series)
Peter H. Salus / Paperback / Published 1995
2.) Building the Arpanet: Unpublished Source Documents of the First
Peter Salus(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1998
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