ARPANET

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, a pioneer packet-switched network that was built in the early 1970s under contract to the US Government, led to the development of today's Internet, and was decommissioned in June 1990.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: ARPANETS
possessive: ARPANET'S
pluralpossessive: ARPANETS'

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