#ARPAnet
- Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
- Created by the US Department of Defense in the late 1960s.
- Primary goal was to establish a communication network between various academic and state institutions.
- The first ARPAnet node was set up at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
#NFSNET
- In 1985, the NSFNET was initially designed as a general-purpose network.
- Its primary goal was to connect supercomputers, research centers, and regional campuses.
- The existing TCP/IP protocol, developed and tested on ARPANET, was employed for this purpose.
- The maximum backbone speed was a modest 56 kb/s.
Ethernet