ARPANET

In the late 1960s, computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) were working on a problem: how to share data and resources among computers that were not physically connected to each other. Their solution was ARPANET, which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. ARPANET was the first wide-area… Read More

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DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for developing innovative technologies for use by the military. The agency was founded in 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik, and its name originally stood for “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.” Today, DARPA’s mission is “to maintain the technological… Read More

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