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A large wide area network created in the 1960s by the U.S. Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA,
renamed DARPA in the 1970s) for the free exchange of information between universities and research organisations, although the military also used this network for communications. In the 1980s
MILNET, a separate network, was spun off from ARPANET for use by the military. ARPANET was the network from which the Internet evolved.
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