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ARPANET, a Rare card
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
ARPANET quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the ARPANET card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Both technologies became the ______ foundation of the Internet.
Answer
technical. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. From the ARPANET article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Building on the ideas of J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Taylor initiated the ARPANET project in ____ to enable resource sharing between remote computers.
Answer
1960s. Building on the ideas of J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Taylor initiated the ARPANET project in 1966 to enable resource sharing between remote computers. From the ARPANET article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Rhetoric. Rhetoric 88 · ARPANET 84 · Time travel 81 · Crab Nebula 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.
- The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense.
- Building on the ideas of J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Taylor initiated the ARPANET project in 1966 to enable resource sharing between remote computers.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The ARPANET article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get ARPANET
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, ARPANET (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ARPANET, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
