“ARPA REVISITED” – RETURN TO THE ROOTS OF THE INTERNET

Piotr APTACY¹

Publication language: Polish

scientific paper

Transformations No. 3(126)2025,  Publication date: 30 September 2025

Article No. 20250930095726910

Keywords: computer networks, ARPA, digital communication

Abstract The article presents the circumstances surrounding the work carried out by employees of the ARPA agency on the construction of the first computer network in the United States. The author focuses on the socio-political factors that contributed to the implementation of this concept, as well as on the ideas that guided the scientists involved in this undertaking in the 1960s.

1. Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Polska

   ORCID: 0000-0003-3628-7202

   E-mail: piotr.aptacy@us.edu.pl

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