[DOC] [TLE] ARPANET - Wikipedia [PAR] The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early 
packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite 
TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. .... 
Later, the Department of Defense allowed the universities to join the network for 
sharing... [DOC] [TLE] ARPANET - Britannica.com [PAR] Jun 1, 2016 ... ARPANET, in full Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, experimental 
computer network that was the forerunner of the Internet. ... Agency (ARPA), an 
arm of the U.S. Defense Department, funded the development of the ... By the 
1960s, a system called SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment)... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Internet - New Media Institute [PAR] Due to the ongoing nature of the internet and society, this chronology is a work in 
progress. 1960s-1970s: ARPANET: Commonly thought of as the predecessor to 
the Internet and created by the US Department of Defenses Advanced Research 
... The first known fully operational packet-switching network, the ARPANET was
... [DOC] [TLE] ARPANET, Ec - CollegeTermPapers.com [PAR] In the late 1960s the U.S. military was desperately afraid of a nuclear attack from 
... (ARPA) within the Department of Defense to establish a bombproof network to 
... TECHNOLOGYThe Internet was developed by the government as Arpanet as a 
... What is today known as the Internet actually developed in the 1960s when the
... [DOC] [TLE] NSF and the Birth of the Internet - Special Report | NSF - National ... [PAR] They have revolutionized business, science, government, education, ... During 
the 1960s, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet ... The network 
would have no central hub that could be taken out, so even if ... The linkage of 
these four computers, called ARPANET, was the forerunner to the modern 
Internet. [DOC] [TLE] History of the Internet | getconnectedtoday.com [PAR] ... Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US 
leadership ... 1960s: ARPANET, the forerunner of today's Internet, is created. 
ARPA wanted to create a computer network that would continue to function in the 
... A team known as "Project Chess" built the IBM PC, which launched on August 
12, 1981. [DOC] [TLE] The History of Computing - George Mason University [PAR] The modern machine definition is based on von Neumann's concepts: a device 
that accepts ... 1950s -1960s - UNIVAC - "punch card technology" The first 
commercially ... 1969 - The Internet, originally the ARPAnet (Advanced Research 
Projects .... This network was an experimental project of the U.S. Department of 
Defense... [DOC] [TLE] Glossrio: NSFNET [PAR] Abbreviation for National Science Foundation's network --the NSFNET. ... was 
devoted to research and education and funded by the U.S. government. It 
superseded ARPANET as the backbone of the Internet, but has since been ... In 
the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Defense wanted to create a computer network 
that would... [DOC] [TLE] ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network ... [PAR] ARPANET is short for "Advanced Research Projects Agency Network". ... which is 
an agency within the United States Department of Defense (Government 
department). ... ARPANET is therefore viewed as a forerunner to the Internet. ... 
Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of ARPA in the early 1960's and is often 
quoted as... [DOC] [TLE] Does the Internet Prove the Need for Government Investment ... [PAR] Nov 1, 1998 ... The actual history of the Internet suggests that this is far from ... network that is 
often described as the forerunner of today's Internet. ... (ARPANET was not the 
only government-funded networking experiment during the 1960s and 1970s. ... 
success of ARPANET; other Defense Department networking efforts... [DOC] [TLE] back ####title#### Next time you send an instant message, listen to ... [PAR] The Internet is the system that connects your computer to mine. ... Eventually, he 
wrote the program he called the World Wide Web. ... By the late 60s, the 
ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet

Question: The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.
Answer: Defense