INTRODUCTION
INTERNET HISTORY
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interconnected
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Internet
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network of networks
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an arm of the U.S. Defense Department, funded the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s. Its initial purpose was to link computers at Pentagon-funded research institutions over telephone lines.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -ARPA research played a central role in launching the “Information Revolution, ‘’ including developing or furthering much of the conceptual basis for ARPANET, a pioneering network for sharing digital resources among geographically separated computers.