What are the Origins of the Internet?
The Internet evolved over time into what it is today, but origins of the Internet began as a US government-funded network. It was intended to provide a non-localized, redundant means of communication between military, scientific, educational and government entities, should a nuclear strike occur. Ideas for the Internet developed contemporaneously in many cases, and origins of the Internet involved many visionaries, only a few of which are named herein. In 1962 Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915 – 1990), an American computer scientists at MIT, envisioned a worldwide network of computers that could easily communicate with one another. Licklider soon moved to the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to oversee development. From this point forward many people were involved in the origins of the Internet within the various stages of development. In brief, Leonard Kleinrock of MIT was instrumental in devising packet switching, the means by which data moves acro
