History of the Internet

In 1965 Ivan Sutherland, the second director of IPTO, hired Bob Taylor, who would later became the third director of IPTO in 1966. One day Taylor was sitting in front of three computer terminals at ARPA and thought to himself: ‘why cant these computers be connected together, with one password and code language instead of three different languages and passwords?’ It was Bob Taylor who first had the idea of networking computers together. Taylor sat down with the director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and requested the funding for his new idea which will decrease the expense for large computers for each universities. Within twenty minutes of their meeting, Taylor received an increase of one million dollars in IPTO funding to commence the new project of connecting 4 university nodes now, and up to a dozen later. Taylor knew that he needed someone who was fluent in telecommunications and who has worked with computers a lot so he choose a friend of his Larry Roberts who worked at Lincon labs with computers like the TX-0 and TX-2. Larry Roberts would be the man in charge at IPTO during the creation of the first connections between the universities.

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