THE history of the internet is a story of military precision, academic vision and the occasional screw-up.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the technologies that led to the creation of the internet and revolutionised the way we work, talk and play.
While computer modems could connect machines as early as the 1960s, they were limited to one-to-one communication.
Eminent scientist J.C.R. Licklider first outlined his vision for an "intergalactic computer network", that predicted many of the ways we use the internet today, in 1962.
Six years later, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency – or DARPA – put the call out for computer scientists to build a network based on Licklider's ideas.
Information chief Robert Taylor knew there must be a better system than what he had in his office.
His three computers were connected to other machines, but he still had to get up and change seats every time he wanted to look at different data.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the technologies that led to the creation of the internet and revolutionised the way we work, talk and play.
While computer modems could connect machines as early as the 1960s, they were limited to one-to-one communication.
Eminent scientist J.C.R. Licklider first outlined his vision for an "intergalactic computer network", that predicted many of the ways we use the internet today, in 1962.
Six years later, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency – or DARPA – put the call out for computer scientists to build a network based on Licklider's ideas.
Information chief Robert Taylor knew there must be a better system than what he had in his office.
His three computers were connected to other machines, but he still had to get up and change seats every time he wanted to look at different data.
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