INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
COMPUTER NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET
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Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first public packet-switched computer network.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network.
Detailed explanation-3: -Computer networking as we know it today may be said to have gotten its start with the Arpanet development in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prior to that time there were computer vendor “networks” designed primarily to connect terminals and remote job entry stations to a mainframe.