Advanced Research Projects Agency
(r-pah)
An agency of the United States Department of Defense, ARPA is famous for starting ARPANET, a large wide-area network designed to link important research sites with a redundant-pathway network that could survive having parts of itself disrupted. ARPANET was the start of the Internet as we know it today.
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