15 Minute Series What was ARPANET?


ARPANET functioned as a "backbone" network - allowing smaller local networks to connect to the backbone.

Once these smaller networks were connected to the backbone, they were in effect connected to each other.

[Diagram of two smaller networks connected to ARPANET]




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