The Prehistory of the Internet

This episode started with the question: who first had the idea to connect computers together to make a network?  We explore JCR Licklider's ideas about an  "Intergalactic Network", some of the earliest attempts at networking, and the ideas that lead to packet switching and the Arpanet.

SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System | MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Memorandum for Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network

The Arpanet and Computer Networks

60 Years of Networking - by Bruce Davies - Systems Approach

Information Flow in Large Communication Nets (1961, Leonard Kleinrock, MIT)

On Distributed Communications Networks (1962, Paul Baran, RAND)

National Physical Laboratory Proposal for a Digital Communication Network by D. W. Davies June, 1966

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