INTRODUCTION
INTERNET HISTORY
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Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Advanced Research Protocol Agency
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Advanced Research Project Agency
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None of the above
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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 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was the old name for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. government responsible for developing new technology for the military.
Detailed explanation-3: -Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957.
Detailed explanation-4: -Probably the best known invention to come out of DARPA is the internet. Indeed, if it weren’t for ARPANET, as the internet’s ancestor was known, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now.