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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/12/24 06:51, Noel Chiappa wrote:<br>

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      <pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">    > From: "Erik E. Fair"

    > before that, ARPANET was connected

NOTE: "ARPANET" is _always_ (**ALWAYS**) used with the definite article

("the"). Don't take my word for it; check out, e.g.

  A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade

  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf">https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf</a>

  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf">https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf</a>

(There are a lot more contemporaneous documents - AFIPS conference papers,

etc - if anyone is interested in them.)

I was somewhat polite about it _this_ time.

        Noel

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    <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Nice. the ARPANET... why

      do I think history and language fluidity will win the war of

      words? google code-shifting. Just typing that last sentence is

      enough to give grammarians everywhere tremors.<br>

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      Great links though.<br>

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      Will<br>

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