In a very true sense, the Internet, this amazingly amazing digital communication network you are now using, was created because a person was angry with many people in computer terminals in his office.
The year was 1966. Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Processing Techniques Office. This agency was formed in response to President Eisenhower in 1958 sputnik. So Taylor was in the Pentagon, which was a great place for abbreviations like the ARPA and IPTO. He had three large -scale terminals that had entered the next room in his office. Each was connected to a different main frame computer. They all did a little differently, and it was disappointing to remember the information and recover the information and recover the information.
Re -create Bob Taylor’s office with three telecommunication by the author. Credit: Rama and Moses Bolo (Wikipedia/Creative Aam), Steve Lodfank (Wikipedia/Creative Aam), Computer Museum @ System Source
In those days, computers lifted the entire room, and users accessed them through telecommunication terminals – Electric Type Writers either erected from the serial cable or modem and phone line. The ARPA was providing financial support for a number of research projects in the United States, but users of these different systems had no way to share their resources together. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a network that connects all these computers?