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tags: [internet, ARPANET]
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created: Sunday, October 27, 2024
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# 82f9c228_dissolution_of_ARPANET
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By 1984, the US military became concerned about the expansion of the ARPANET and
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its growing non-military applications (see the film _War Games_ released in
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1983!). They split the network into the _ARPANET_ for academic research and the
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_MILNET_ for non-civilian users where transmission was encrypted and protected.
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Throughout the 1980s, the US National Science Foundation began promoting private
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networks that used the ARPANET as their _backbone_. (Private in the sense of not
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publicly-funded.)
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Later, these became commercial and
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[subscription-based](cfbef1c4_web_precursors.md). A plethora of ..._NETS_ grew
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up (NSFNET, USENET, CSNET, TELENET etc.), all based on #packet-switching, the
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ARPANET nodes as the backbone and [TCP/IP](Link_Layer_of_Internet_Protocol.md)
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host communication.
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These networks, although accessible to the public through subscriptions,
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remained unwieldy and inconsistent to access until the Web.
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