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JCR Licklider and the Dream Machine

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The Internet grew out of a research program sponsored by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. D/ARPA was created in 1958, the depths of the Cold War, to oversee and coordinate military research projects. It was established shortly after the Soviet Union had shocked the United States by successfully launching the Sputnik satellites, threatening American pre-eminence in science. Sputnik prompted the Eisenhower administration to place a new emphasis on science and mathematics education and government-funded scientific research. D/ARPA has funded a large share of the computer science research in industry and academia over the four decades of its existence.

JCR Licklider and the Dream Machine JCR Licklider and the Dream Machine The Internet grew out of a research program sponsored by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency . D/ARPA was created in 1958, the depths of the Cold War, to oversee and coordinate military research projects. It was established shortly after the Soviet Union had shocked the United States by successfully launching the Sputnik satellites, threatening American pre-eminence in science. Sputnik prompted the Eisenhower administration to place a new emphasis on science and mathematics education and governme

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