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the history of the internet begins with the development of electronic computers.
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The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the or packet network systems.
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Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961
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the first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R Licklider of MIT (galactic Network concept)-
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Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, starting in October 1962.
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Firts book on the subject.
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The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military.
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Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the ARPANET, publishing it in in 1967.
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An RFQ was realeased by DARPA for the development of one of the key componets, the packet switches called interface Message Processors.
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The RFQ was won in december 1968 by a group headed by Frank Heart
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When BBN installed the first IMP at UCLA and the first host computer was connected.
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In the network working group working under S. Crocker finished the initial ARPANET called the network Control Protocol.
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Initial hot application, electronic mail, was introduced.
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Kahn organized a large, very succesful demostration of the ARPANET at the International Computer Communication Conference.
