ARPANET Was A(n)

question 27

Multiple Choice

ARPANET was a(n)

• A)Cold War-era network for sharing national security information between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency (NSA).
• B)independent agency of the federal government during the 1990s that regulated and taxed internet service providers (ISPs).
• C)program managed by the U.S.Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the 1950s, which intended to launch the first artificial satellite into Earth's orbit.
• D)decentralized, highly redundant communications network created by the federal government in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Independent Variable

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Dependent Variable

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