15 Minute Series What was ARPANET?


In 1983, DARPA decided that TCP/IP would be the standard set of protocols used by computers connecting to ARPANET. This meant that any smaller networks (for example, a university network) that wanted to connect to ARPANET also had to be using TCP/IP.

TCP/IP was available for free and was increasingly used by networks. The spread of TCP/IP helped create the Internet as we know it today - the network of networks that either use the TCP/IP protocols, or can interact with TCP/IP networks.



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