🌐 ARPANET and the Birth of the Internet
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ARPANET was created in 1969 by the US Department of Defense and is the direct precursor to today’s Internet.
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Its aim was to connect research computers at universities and maintain communication even during failures.
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The first message on ARPANET was sent on October 29, 1969 from UCLA to Stanford—and it was just the word “LO,” as the system crashed while trying to send “LOGIN.”
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The first four connected universities were UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. ARPANET used the still-relevant TCP/IP protocol, which laid the foundation for global communication.
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