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ARPANET

FILE DATE 1969

CROSS-REFS 02

STATUS NEVER CLOSED

SUMMARY

The internet's military birth certificate. It never stopped being what it was born as.

FULL DOSSIER

ARPANET (first link 1969) was DARPA-funded packet switching for resilient military communication; TCP/IP, email, and the modern internet grew from it. The node's role in the web is genealogical: the network everyone lives on descends from a defense project, which frames every subsequent surveillance revelation less as intrusion than as reversion.

SOURCES ON RECORD

01ARPANET completion report (1978)

02Abbate, 'Inventing the Internet' (1999)

CROSS-REFERENCED FILES

DARPA LIFELOG

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