INTRODUCTION
INTERNET HISTORY
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Advanced Research Project Agency Network
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Advanced Research Programmed Auto Network
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Advanced Research Project Automatic Network
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Advanced Research Project Authorized Network
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the forerunner of the Internet, was a pioneering long-haul network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
Detailed explanation-2: -The word internet was first used to describe the combination of these two networks. The importance of ARPANET diminished as other networks became more dominant in the mid-1980s. The National Science Foundation Network replaced ARPANET as the backbone of the internet in 1986.
Detailed explanation-3: -ARPANET arose from a desire to share information over great distances without the need for dedicated phone connections between each computer on a network. As it turned out, fulfilling this desire would require “packet switching.” Paul Baran, a researcher at the RAND Corporation think tank, first introduced the idea.