What a steaming pile of uninformed crap.  All those words and not one mention of the man who made it all happen. J. C. R. Licklider wrote the paper that caused the federal government to give 13 million dollars to start the internet and personal computing and it was his team that got it off the ground. I watched it all happen as he described the ideas and methods they were generating, in letters to my grandmother, his aunt, Lura Irene Licklider. I was a kid and a big sci-fi fan, so I explained to her what it was about. Arpanet was his baby. Search on his name to learn the real truth.