Editing ARPAnet

{{wikipediainfo}}The '''ARPAnet''' was the '''Advanced Research Projects Agency network''', sometimes referred to as the '''net'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)}})

ARPAnet had existed since the [[1960s]]. In the [[1980s]] it connected over [[200 (number)|200]] individual [[college]], [[research]], and [[military]] [[computer]]s across the [[US]], "talking" to one another, swapping [[file]]s and [[email|electronic "mail"]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)|chapt=10 Three}}) [[Defence contractor]]s, such as [[TLA]], were eligible for connection to the ARPAnet. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)|chapt=10 Four}})

[[Peri Brown]] described the ARPAnet as "just a bunch of [[scientist]]s and [[general]]s sending each other computer [[message]]s", but [[Bob Salmon]] believed the net was going to expand past its size in the [[1980s]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)|chapt=20 Two}}) According to Bob, "[i]n the future, there could be [[100 (number)|hundreds]]" or even "thousands of [computers] connecting through the network", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)|chapt=80}}) and owning a [[modem]] would be "just as normal" as owning a [[phone]], which would completely change the way [[human being]]s [[communication|communicated]] and even the way they [[thought]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)|chapt=20 Two}})

== Behind the scenes ==
In the real world, the ARPAnet was the precursor to the [[Internet]], and one of the first networks to implement many of the [[technology|technologies]] the Internet would later use. However, the two concepts have never been explicitly connected in a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source]].

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