See also: ARPANET, forerunner of the internet. > The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first ne

See also: ARPANET, forerunner of the internet. > The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was initially founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" by Katie Hafner is an entertaining chronicle of its creation.