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Kevin Featherly
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Contributor to SAGE Publication's Encyclopedia of New Media (2003) whose work for that encyclopedia formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (7)
Map of the United States showing the 1974 Arpanet network, with labeled nodes connected by lines representing network links across the country and to international sites.
ARPANET, experimental computer network that was the forerunner of the Internet. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an arm of the U.S. Defense Department, funded the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s. Its initial purpose was to link…
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