Arlington County Government, VA 26sq, 19 May 2011

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From YouTube: ARPAnet - the team behind the internet

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You may know that the Internet was, in fact, created in Arlington in the 1970s. The technology was developed by the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now known as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

The ARPANET, a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, developed the technology that became the foundation for the internet. Originally intended to support military needs, ARPANET technology was soon applied to civilian uses, allowing information to be rapidly and widely available. The internet, and services such as e-mail, e-commerce and the World Wide Web, continues to grow as the under-lying technologies evolve. The innovations inspired by the ARPANET have provided great benefits for society.

Special Thanks to:
Steve Lukasik
Charles Herzfeld
Robert Kahn
Steve Crocker
Potomac Institute of Policy Studies
Corporation of National Research Initiatives
Shinkuro Inc.

photos provided by:
Charles Herzfeld
DV Archive
Marcin Wichary
Joi Ito
Steve Jurveston
National Archives
creative commons
public domain

A

It had never been done before, and people forget what that's like this was.

B

Going to be unbounded in terms of the applications it had.

C

The potential for really revolutionize in the computing industry, people.

D

Very often ask: did you visualize all this? Did you plan it? Oh no.

A

One had any idea how pervasive it would be.

A

Let us build a network and let that be the future of scientific computing.

D

The start of all of this is that if you work on your computer and I work on my computer and you and I have to solve a problem together, wouldn't it be nice if my computer was connected to your computer, it.

C

Was this organization in the government called ARPA that was interested in computer networking? The.

D

Advanced Research Projects Agency is directed to moving technology in areas that are important to national security in.

A

Those days our probe was in the Pentagon all of it, not these contractors, but all the staff. There was a man hired by Levin Licklider and it was his dream to tie the well together with with computers. His idea was very different. The the machine says he said used to be very big. You never touched one, and you talked to the program ever look. Lattice idea was radically different. He wanted close interaction between the individual researcher and the computer Lickliter.

C

Had managed to convince a lot of people that this was a good idea and Charlie was persuaded that building a network for the research community was actually a good thing for a variety of reasons. Sharing computer resources was a motivation, but DARPA also understood that if this was successful, it would probably make a difference to the Defense Department and its operation in the future. It.

A

Was plausible, it was interesting in my view, it was all certainly doable, so it came.

B

The ARPA office had moved from the Pentagon where it had been in the late 60s to the 1400. Wilson Boulevard is a loss for.

A

The Pentagon to not have the technical people within easy walking distance. Our part in those days made the computer science community and funded it and made it function. The.

C

Summer of 1968 GARP a-- actually put out a request for quotations RFQ asking for proposals to build a four node packet-switched debt. A lot of the ideas that I've been working on were embedded in that RFQ those invention.

A

That Kahn triggered, and he and Vint Cerf made it together and as the internet protocols, without which nothing would work and with it just about everything works. It was I, think the single largest engineering invention of the 20th century internet.

C

Protocols which I developed along with my colleague, Vint Cerf, were really what enabled this whole collection of worldwide components to work together, seamlessly the.

D

Arpanet was developed by a virtual organization, it was, it was six or eight different universities spread around the country and graduate students who are the real heroes of the of the ARPANET.

B

At the beginning of 1969, they started to build this network and the first node was going to be at UCLA in September 1969 graduate students and the other staff members got together all together in one meeting, and then we initiated a series of meetings ourselves to sketch out what to do with this network that led to the creation of a set of documents, which we called requests for comments as a deliberate ploy to make it clear that the door was open.

B

But they were in fact the way which we documented the designs and the standards that we had come up with. Steve.

D

Crocker who's, one of a small team who installed the first IMP that has got it running. I was.

B

In the group that was getting favored with this present, if you will was a sort of gift from on high that couldn't be refused you're going to be connected. The.

A

First connection over the ARPANET had happened after I was gone, Steve Lukasik, calling to start we connected it, failed it disconnected right away but said well, that's it's like to be first on the park. This.

D

Is really working now, not that this is this is good if it worked this.

B

Is really working? The youngest guy in our group, Charlie Klein was given the task of sitting down and typing the the characters and he typed. He tried to type login, l, o GI n as the initiation and after 2 or 3 characters, the connection died and all the software broke, and we had to go back to the drawing board for a short. While that was the the Watson moment of something historic. It was absolutely clear that it was going to work.

C

The basic idea of computers, interacting with computers, really was a result of the original ARPANET, where it showed that that was possible. This.

D

Network really was terrific for joint problem solving, so the whole thing began to spread sort of by example. The limit that's there is not in the science and the technology in the hardware and the soil. The limit is up here is by no means at its end, that's by no means out of plateau I think it has a long, a very long way to go an.

C

Area that I think is going to be extremely important for the future. Is that of understanding how best to use unity to manage information when.

A

I was a kid I wanted to miracle things. I wanted a library that every book in it and one the magic carpet that we take me anywhere and I'm.

D

Pretty close I think it's I think it's an amazing thing and I've been so close to it and I'm still amazed by it.