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A screenshot of the beginning of Licklider's "Intergalactic Computer Network" memo from the Kurzweilai.net website, as the memo appeared on that site in Septembe 2020.
From his office at The Pentagon on April 25, 1963 J.C.R. Licklider, Director of Behavioral Sciences Command & Control Research at ARPA, the U. S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, sent a memo to members and affiliates of what he jokingly called the "Intergalactic Computer Network," outlining a key part of his strategy to connect all their individual computers and time-sharing systems into a single computer network spanning the continent” (Waldrop).