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Internet Techniques and Web Formats >> History of Multimedia >> ARPANET

1.3.3. ARPANET

The introduced concepts of hypertext and hypermedia were running only on one single computer up to then.

In those years, the desire for connecting several remote computers increased steadily until in 1969, a network system was developed met these demands. This computer-network was called ARPANET and was created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA).

ARPANET allowed government and research institutions to share information. A user could log into a remote computer, print documents on a remote printer and transfer files between remote machines. The most significant achievement from ARPANET was the Internet Protocol (IP) and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These protocols constitute the basis for network-communication. Their characteristics will be discussed in a further lesson.

ARPANET

ARPANET

ARPANET was the forerunner of today's internet. Among other services, the internet nowadays renders the service of making available multimedia applications to a wide public.



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