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The Internet
Computers are, and always will be complex animals, willing to be tamed only by those with a strong enough motivation to endure failure over and over just for a small victory. The Internet was born of such a beast, and proudly dons these characteristics like a badge. It seems the further you delve into the murky depths of the Internet, you dig up more and more of its uncertain upbringing. The birth of the Internet is a curious story. Some people might say the Internet is a decommissioned piece of military equipment. They wouldn’t be entirely wrong. But before the Internet came into being, somebody had to come up with the idea. Who could have envisioned a global network of computers, connected by nearly 200 different types of telephone and data circuits? During the summer break at MIT, a psychologist named JCR Licklider posted a series of memos to the “Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network”. This set of papers held the prophetic vision of thirty years in the future. Licklider laid out a plan of globally interconnected computers networked together where scientists, researchers and government officials could talk and share programs from any site across the world. Sound familiar? Dr. Licklider was rushed to head the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, where he proposed his ideas and innovations to Lawrence Roberts, a researcher at MIT. Roberts then published a brief summary of their work in his “Plan for the ARPANET” in 1967. The ARPANET was still in the development stages simply because nobody had a clue on how to transfer information back and forth between computers. Another scientist at MIT, named Leonard Kleinrock, had published a book in 1964 about the feasibility of computers communicating in bursts of data called packets, instead of direct-wired circuits. This scientist contacted Roberts with his theories and the ARPANET became an achievable goal. The ARPANET project came together... Please login to view comments from other users.
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