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Classification: organization
Chapter: The Plot Thickens
DARPANet, an in-group misnomer for the ARPANET, was the precursor to the Internet, a computer network established by the Defense Advanced Projects Agency in the ’60s, the first two computers being at SDC in Santa Monica and the University of California at Berkeley.