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ARPANET, an acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was the precursor to the modern internet. Developed in the late 1960s, it was a packet-switching network designed to facilitate communication between computers at different locations. The project was initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to create a robust and resilient communication system that could withstand a nuclear attack.
The first ARPANET message was sent on October 29, 1969, between a computer at the University of
ARPANET used a protocol called Network Control Protocol (NCP) for communication between nodes. In 1983, the
The ARPANET project was officially retired on February 1, 1990, but its legacy lives on in the