What Was The
Internet Originally Called?
Answer: The Intergalactic Computer Network
In April of 1963 computer scientist
J. Licklider published a memorandum on the topic of remotely networked
computers entitled “MEMORANDUM FOR: Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic
Computer Network”. The memo is the first evidence of computer scientists moving
towards establishing a geographically distributed network of computers
resembling the modern Internet and, for a time, the “intergalactic computer
network” nomenclature stuck.
The title fell out of popularity with
the introduction of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s ARPANET in 1969.
The term “Internet” to refer to a large network of remote computers would not
be put into use until an appearance in a 1974 paper by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
and wouldn’t be popularized until the early 1990s.
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