Why was Arpanet created?

Answer 1

A network of computers developed by US Army such that a nuke won't be able to take away command and control of all of their toys, and so ensure capabilities of reply after a first strike.

Sneighke added:

The ARPANET was a research network funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency and was originally used to interconnect four sites, including two University of California campuses, the Stanford Research Institute and the University of Utah and was launched in 1969. It was NOT developed by the army although the military had it's own unclassified network MILnet tied into ARPANET. MILnet split off in 1983.

It was used for high speed data transmission and not to control nukes. It also is myth that ARPANET was built to survive a nuke attack, it wasn't. But it did allow redundancy since it was a packet switched network and was designed to survive network losses.

Answer 2

what role did the arpanet play in the development of the internet?Ans: ARPANET was established as the 1st host-to-host network connection on Oct. 29,1969. It connected time sharing computers at government-supported research sites and it soon became a critical piece of infrastructures for the computer science research community in the United States.

Answer 3

ARPANET was a large wide-area networkcreated by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Established in 1969, ARPANET served as a testbed for new networking technologies, linking many universities and research centers. The first two nodes that formed the ARPANET were UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, followed shortly thereafter by the University of Utah.

Answer 4

To create a communications system that could survive a bombing attack. The idea was that if one part went down, the other parts could remain in communication with each other.