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ARPANET

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.

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Location
United States, United Kingdom, Norway
Closed
1990; 36 years ago (1990)
Commercial?
No
Established
1969; 57 years ago (1969)
Funding
From 1966, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Operator
From 1975, Defense Communications Agency

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Decommissioning

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ARPANET

Nodes189
Edges188
Triples455
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010582
Components1

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ARPANET

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related to Further reading · 153
ARPANET → Abbate, ACM, ACM Conference, Addison-Wesley, AFIPS, Anniversary, APress/Springer Verlag, April, Archived, Arlington, ARPA, ARPANET Protocol Handbook, ARPANET Resource Handbook, Arthur, ASIN B000EN742K, Association, August, Banks, Barry, Bartlett
related to TCP/IP · 56
ARPANET → At, BBN, Beginning, Bob Kahn, Bob Metcalfe, British, Carl Sunshine, Cerf, Chair, Crocker's, DARPA, December, Ethernet, France, French, French CYCLADES, Hubert Zimmermann, ICCC, IENs, International Network Working Group
related to External links · 47
ARPANET → April, Archived, ARPANET History, ARPANET Maps, August, Bridging, Brief History, California State University, Cringely, CSUDH, DARPA, David, Dominguez Hills, Doug Engelbart's Role, East Sandwich, February, First Words, Gap, Images, Infant Internet Uttered
related to Initial four hosts · 31
ARPANET → ARC, California, Computing, Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics Center's, DEC PDP-10, Douglas Engelbart, Genie, IBM, Ivan Sutherland, Kleinrock, Leonard Kleinrock, Los Angeles, Network Information Center, Network Measurement Center, NIC, NLS, NMC, OS/MVT, Santa Barbara, SDS
related to Creation · 22
ARPANET → After, ARPA, ARPA Information Processing Techniques, ARPA's Director Charles, Bob Taylor, Clark's, February, Frank Westervelt, Herzfeld, IMPs, In April, In February, Interface Message Processors, January, Larry Roberts, Office, Paul Baran, Roberts, Taylor, Taylor's
related to IMP functionality · 22
ARPANET → An, An ARPANET, ARPANET's Network Control Center, BBN, Because, DEBUG, DISCARD, For, However, IMP, IMP-to-IMP, IMPnotation, IMPs, In, Initially, MIT-DMG, PARAMETER-CHANGE, STATISTICS, These, TRACE
related to Growth and evolution · 20
ARPANET → August, BBN, By, By June, By March, Cambridge, December, East Coast, Frank, Howard Frank, IMP, IMPs, July, June, Massachusetts, Roberts, September, Support, Thereafter, United States
related to Network Control Program · 18
ARPANET → ARPA, Crocker, Internet, IP, Jon Postel, NCP, Network Control Program, Network Working Group, Nonetheless, NWG, OSI, Steve Crocker, TCP, The NCP, They, This, UCLA, Unlike
related to Operation · 13
ARPANET → Access, ARPA, At, BBN, Computer Science Network, CSNET, DARPA, Defense Communications Agency, National Science Foundation, Nonetheless, NSF, The ARPANET, The ARPANET Completion Report
related to Debate about design goals · 11
ARPANET → According, ARPA Director, Brief History, Charles Herzfeld, Furthermore, Herzfeld, However, Internet, Internet Society, The ARPANET, These

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network computer first internet arpa protocol roberts research packet control imp 1970 networks message host doi 10 switching bbn computers

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ARPANETClosed1990; 36 years ago (1990)1.00infobox
ARPANETCommercial?No1.00infobox
ARPANETEstablished1969; 57 years ago (1969)1.00infobox
ARPANETFundingFrom 1966, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)1.00infobox
ARPANETLocationUnited States, United Kingdom, Norway1.00infobox
ARPANETOperatorFrom 1975, Defense Communications Agency1.00infobox
ARPANETProtocolsLayers 1-3: 1822 protocol (IMP-host), internal/undocumented (IMP-IMP) Layers 4+: NCP, later TCP/IP1.00infobox
ARPANETTypeData1.00infobox
ARPANETrelated to 1822 protocolThe0.60section
ARPANETrelated to 1822 protocolIMP0.60section
ARPANETrelated to 1822 protocolAn0.60section
ARPANETrelated to 1822 protocolTo0.60section

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