Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network
J. C. R. Licklider, the Director of Behavioral Sciences Command & Control Research at ARPA, distributes a memorandum that will often later cited as the origin of ARPAnet, the packet switching network that was the forerunner of the Internet, to his colleagues, "the members and affiliates of the intergalactic network." In the memo he outlines the challenges that would be presented in their efforts to establish a time-sharing network of computers with the software available.
