THE INTERNET
The idea of the Internet started in the early 1960’s. J.C.R. Licklider, an MIT student, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962. He then moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency later in 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock, another student at MIT, developed the theory of packet switching. This was to form the basis of the Internet. In 1965, another student at MIT named Lawrence Roberts connected a computer in Massachusetts to a computer in California over dial-up telephone lines.