Video: Nerds 2.0.1 A Brief History of the Internet, Volume one: Networking the Nerds
-Internet History (see  Hobbes's Timeline )
-The idea of a computer network of shared data was first envisioned by J.R. Licklider ("Lick") at MIT in 1962.
-The first moves toward creating the Internet was in response to the first artificial satellit, Sputnik, that the USSR launched in 1957.
-Science, engineering and technology became an important priority of funding for the U.S. because of Sputnik.
-The two main efforts cited in the video are the SPACE RACE to the moon, and creating a digital network between mainframe computers.
-In the late 1960s computers took up whole rooms of space and people shared time on them via keyboard & monitor (dumb terminals).
-The army Pentagon office of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was granted money to start the first digital network.  Bob Taylor was the head of the Pentagon Office that got the money and put out a call for proposals to engineering companies to build the first digital network.
-BBN (Bolt, Beranek, & Newman) engineering firm in Cambridge MA, was awarded the money to build the first digital network between mainframe computers in 1968.
-The main people at BBN were Frank Hart, Bob Kahn, & Severo Ornstein.
-The theory of packet switching was developed by Len Kleinrock at UCLA.
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