I think the most interesting thing here is not some fancy new technology. It’s actually in the integration, and in the conversation, and in thinking about things like what we can actually build right now.
Lawrence Roberts’ Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech
presented by Lawrence Roberts
The way it all started was in 1964 I was at a conference in the homestead in Virginia. And Lick and I were sitting around talking with Corbató, who was running the time-sharing system at MIT. And Lick was talking about what do we need next? And I was very interested in that. And so he was saying, "Well, we need a network to tie the machines together. We need some way to have them communicate." Read more →