What was ARPANET?
What was ARPANET?
ARPANET functioned as a "backbone" network - allowing smaller
local networks to connect to the backbone.
Once these smaller networks were connected to the backbone, they were in effect connected to each other.
![[Diagram of two smaller networks connected to ARPANET]](../images/backbone.gif)
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