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ARPANET

ARPANET

3 8.2
A large group of connected computers that became the start of the internet
  • noun
  • /ˈɑːr.pəˌnɛt/
  • Specialized
: ARPANET
  • DARPA, as you know, did the ARPANET, which led to the Internet.
  • ARPANET nodes
  • network called ARPANET
  • ARPANET project

And he said, hey, John, I want to be on the ARPANET.

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Examples

  • The ARPANET was so called because it was funded by ARPA (part of the Department of Defense).

    Blog text (8)

  • It was this research that ultimately led to ARPANET, commercial time-sharing systems, and ultimately to the Internet.

    Blog text (28)

  • So obviously it's most famous because the Internet started as the Arpanet and was created in very much this.

  • To achieve this result, ARPANET used multiple links between each computer on the network.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Through his research, he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973.

    Blog text (32)

  • While the Internet can trace its existence to ARPANET in 1969, it took off as a commercial tool with the development of the World Wide Web in 1991.

    Academic text (2003)

  • These individual, private networks eventually merged into one main system, ultimately replacing ARPANET with today's Internet.

    Academic text (2002)

  • October 29, 1969 - The first computer-to-computer message transmission (ARPANET), the basis of today's internet, was established between UCLA and Stanford on this date.

    Blog text (20)

  • In 1969, a U.S. Department of Defense project founded under the auspices of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created Arpanet, the first computer network (Hafner and Lyon 1996).

    Academic text (1997)

  • The ARPANET was the first large-scale computer network, developed in the late 1960s.

Synonyms

internetwork
vsARPANET
  • Specialized
1 5.2

A group of connected computers in different places that share data

is an early single large-scale network that became the foundation of the modern internet

Surface Forms

ARPANET singular
ARPANETS plural

Morphology

ARPANET = ARPA + net (semi-transparent) = ARPA + net

The element 'net' is transparent, but 'ARPA' is an institutional acronym unfamiliar to most learners, making the compound only partially obvious.

Etymology

ARPANET comes from the US agency name ARPA, which is short for 'Advanced Research Projects Agency', plus the word NET meaning 'network'. So ARPANET was originally a 'network for research projects' and became the start of the modern internet.