 History of the Internet
 J.C.R
Licklider
Licklider was first interested in computers when he
worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory.
Lincon had a model TX-0 computer where a man named Wesley Clark worked, Licklider studied
the computer and became interested in the relationship between man and computers. In 1960
Licklider wrote a paper called "Man-Computer Symbiosis" where he wrote about the
computer and mans dissimilarities which often benefit from each other. He gives an example
of a Fig tree and a insect Blastophaga grossorum. The insect pollinates the fig tree and
the and the fig tree houses the insect, both cant live without each other, but are
completely dissimilar organisms. In the "Man-Computer Symbiosis" Licklider
explains the Symbiosis of man and computer to come:
In the anticipated symbiotic partnership, men will set
the goals, formulate the hypotheses, determine the criteria, and perform the evaluation.
Computing machines will do the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for
insights and decisions in technical and scientific thinking.(Licklider, 1960)
Licklider was the first to believe that computers could be used for
more that just large calculators but instead they could perform scientific
thinking(Licklider p1). A copy of the paper "Man-Computer symbiosis" can be
found in appendix 3..
In 1964 J.C.R Licklider left ARPA but not with out changing ARPA’s
main focus from war game scenarios to research into timesharing, computer graphics and
computer language.
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