The <u>ARPANET </u>network became functional in 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers across the United States.
Explanation:
ARPA Net is the network that has become functional in 1969 in united States. The basic purpose of this network is to link all the researchers and scientists across united states. The full form of ARPANet is Advanced Research Project Agency Network.
The importance of this network is increase because small chunks of data that are called packets has been proposed for data transmission in the network. The data is divided into small packets and send it over the network, at destination point these packets are combined together and become orignal information.