ARPANET

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That partial “LO” became the first breath of Arpanet, a Cold War project funded by the Defense Department to build a resilient communications network.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

There, he worked with Al Gore, then a senator, to craft legislation to make the military’s computer network, Arpanet, available to civilian researchers through the foundation’s NSFnet.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

The first data ever transmitted over Arpanet, the precursor of the internet, blipped from a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles to one at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto on Oct.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2019

Frank Heart, 89, the engineer who oversaw development of the first routing computer for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, died last Sunday at a retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2018

He noted the difficulty of anticipating the effects of orders-of-magnitude growth, reflecting on the twenty years of experience with the Arpanet and Internet.

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