Who or what is ARPNET?

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it is a communications service desgined in the cold war to transfer data after a nuclear attack it was the first internet basically

Read the book "Where Wizards stay up Late" The author talks about how the arpnet and the internet were created. He says in the very beginning that it was not created to to survive a nuclear war but to share scarce resources. The idea that arpnet and the internet were created to survive a nuclear was is a very common misconception. Read the the book, it is only $10 from Amazon and it is non technical.

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