Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the US military set up
the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity …

No one group or person can take credit for inventing the Internet. Key ideas came from both
military and academic researchers, DOE money got it up and running. Article giving a …

I was fortunate to be in contact with several primary sources as I wrote this book—people
who played important roles in the development of the online world. Leonard Kleinrock and …

One popular history of the Internet begins by quoting a pioneer's hopes that historians would
dispel the myth, already prevalent, that the Internet was invented ''to protect national security …

Jacques Vallee was among the engineers and visionaries who set up the Internet, hoping to
connect people--not control them--through information. For a few years, it seemed that this …

From the Publisher: Just try to imagine the world without the Internet. Yet in the early 1990s,
hardly any of us knew it existed. What even fewer know is that its roots stretch back well into …

" The ARPA theme is that the promise offered by the computer as a communication medium
between people, dwarfs into relative insignificance the historical beginnings of the computer …

This chapter summarizes the technical history of the internet. The history of the Western
internet is a chronicle of contradiction. In its predominantly pre-market phase, the internet …

Thus, from some far-away beleaguered island, where all day long the men have fought a
desperate battle from their city walls, the smoke goes up to heaven; but no sooner has the …

The ARPANET began operation in 1969 with four nodes as an experiment in resource
sharing among computers. By 1971 fifteen nodes were operating and by 1973 thirty-seven …