Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Timeline for Intoduction to "Man-Computer Symbiosis"

1960 - J.C.R. Licklider wrote his essay "Man-Computer Symbiosis"

1962 - Licklader leaves his post as VP at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) to head the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

1962 - Licklader addressed a memo to the "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network"

1960s - Licklader encourages universities to link their computers together to share in the benefits from new software tools

1964 - Licklader left ARPA but the network he envisioned, the ARPAnet, took shape

1968 - With Robert Taylor, Licklader helped write the article "The Computer as Communication Device"...said that soon we would be able to communicate better through a machine than by face-to-face interaction

1969 - the 2nd ARPAnet was connected by Doug Engelbart at SRI wrich brought online the network that would become the Internet

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