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
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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.