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Arpanet


An acronym for Advanced Research Project Agency Network. An early communications network developed by the Department of Defense in the late 1960s. It connected high-tech research institutions and the military.	1
‡ Creating a communications system that could survive a nuclear war was a major impetus behind the development of this system.	2
‡ Arpanet is often spoken of as a precursor of the Internet.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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