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May 19, 2004
Computer as a communications device
There was a great pointer on the to two who, through his position at DARPA, was a key figure in the development of the Internet. Here's how the memex.org site describes these papers: In two extraordinary papers, Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) and The Computer as a Communications Device (1968, co-authored with Robert Taylor), Licklider describes his vision of computing (1960), which led to the funding priorities of IPTO and helps explain why the Internet was built, and discusses the future (1968), presciently arguing that by the Year 2000 millions of people would be on-line, connected by a global network. The site is questionable (green text on a black background...old CRT or what?) and the PDF could use some design help too. But this looks like a must download for anyone interested in communications and/or Internet history.
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