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The second way of transfering information over the network that ARPAnet used in 1972 was called File Transfer Protocol, or FTP. This was used to transfer large text files and data files between computers, no matter what the platform. This means that you can share documents with a Macintosh even if you are using a PC, and vice versa.

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