The story of Internet
Friday, 25 Mar 2005 16:41
A short history of the early Internet
The starting point for the Internet is considered to be some memos by J Licklider of MIT sent in August 1962 discussing his “Galactic Network” concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. Licklider was also first head of the computer research programme at DARPA.
In 1965 Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Merrill - watched anxiously by Leonard Kleinrock, who had proposed using packets of information - connected two computers together across the US, making it the first WAN (wide area network).
