ARPANET completed | Techday, December 5th
On this TECHDAY in history, on December 5th 1969, the initial four-node ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) network was established, with the admission of the University of Utah. What was, later, known as the Internet, originally stemmed from this planned experimental network of nodes. The four universities that took part in this network were: the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Stanford Research Institute, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of Utah.
ARPANET used the Network Control Program (NCP) as its initial communication protocol, later replaced by the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in 1983. TCP/IP became the standard protocol for the Internet, till in use today.
The United States government funded the project, intending to use it for research and experimentation. However, it quickly became clear that the potential for this new technology was much greater than just for academic and government use. It paved the way for the creation of the commercial Internet, and the development of new technologies such as email, file transfer, and remote login.
ARPANET was officially decommissioned in 1990. Its legacy, though, lives on as the Internet continues to connect people and information all over the world.
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