Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.
- Abbreviation:
- ARPANET
- Acronym:
- ARPANET
- Initialism:
- ARPANET
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