Definitions for "Advanced Research Projects Agency Network"
Created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), ARPANET was an experimental Wide Area Network (WAN) established in 1969. Being the testing phase for upcoming networks and network technology, ARPANET would link universities and research centers. Connecting these hosts together, two at UCLA and Stanford provided communication links for researchers to exchange ideas. This later became the forerunner to the Internet.
A network originally sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to link universities and government research centers. The TCP/IP protocols were pioneered on ARPANET.
The US government-funded network that evolved into the Internet.
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