The History of the ARPANET
The beginnings of the Internet were initiated by the Advanced Research Project Agency, or ARPA. This was a program funded by the U.S. Department of Defense whose original goal was to improve communication among government officials. As ARPA soon found out, it would not be an easy task to accomplish. There were many different areas that would hold them down. Very soon, a man named J.C.R. Licklider was the man chosen to head the creation of this soon - to - be vast network of communication. Welcome to the history of the ARPANET, the foundation of what is now known as the Internet. The current system (batch), as Licklider found, was not very efficient. The majority of the Department of Defense wanted to improve on this current format of computing, which used cards to take in code, and took a day or more to compile the code. In order for communications to expand, Licklider decided, they would have to change the entire way of computing, not just improve on the current format, What (Larry Roberts, successor to Licklider as head of ARPA) concluded was that we had to do something about communications, and that really, the idea of the gala
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