Networking: Vision and Packet Switching 1959 - 1968
Intergalactic Vision to Arpanet 2.7 Planning the ARPANET:
1967-1968 In 1966, Robert (Bob) W. Taylor succeeded Sutherland
as Director of the IPTO. Taylor completely subscribed to
Licklider’s vision of an Intergalactic Network. Furthermore, he
faced the essence of the problem every day in his office: he had
three different computer terminals because he needed access to
three different computers. Taylor remembers: "By late '65, early
'66, there were a number of ARPA sponsored research groups that
had built for themselves, and were using in their own work, some
of the first time-sharing systems. So, it occurred to me, sort
of taking off from this tongue and cheek 'Intergalactic Network'
phrase of Licklider's, that the next thing to do was obvious,
and that is -- if we had singular communities who could
interactively communicate through a time-sharing system that
they were all members of, why couldn't we have clusters of
communities interact, members of one commu