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Network connecting computers globally. By 1969, the first four nodes were operational at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. The network's architecture reflected a radical departure from the telephone network's circuit-switching model. Where telephone networks established dedicated connections for the duration of a call, ARPANET used packet switching — breaking data into discrete packets that traveled independently across the network and reass...

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'''ARPANET''' (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the first wide-area [[packet switching]] network, operational from 1969 to 1990. Funded by the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later DARPA), it connected research universities and defense contractors and became the technical and organizational prototype for the modern [[internet]]. ARPANET is not merely a historical precursor. It is a case study in how [[infrastructure]] creates the conditions for its own transformation — how a network built for resource sharing became a platform for communication, and then a model for decentralized governance.

== Origins and Design Philosophy ==

ARPANET emerged from a convergence of Cold War strategic concerns and research collaboration needs. In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider at ARPA envisioned a Galactic

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