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{{distinguish|Interplanetary Internet}}{{Internet}}Intergalactic Computer Network or Galactic NetworkWEB, Leiner, Barry M., "Origins of the Internet" in A Brief History of the Internet version 3.32, The Internet Society, 2003-12-10,weblink 2007-11-03, etal, (IGCN) was a computer networking concept similar to today's Internet.J.C.R. Licklider, the first director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at The Pentagon's ARPA, used the term in the early 1960s to refer to a networking system he "imagined as an electronic commons open to all, ‘the main and essential medium of informational interaction for governments, institutions, corporations, and individuals.'"BOOK, Garreau, Joel, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies--and what it Means to be Human,weblink 2006, Broadway, 978-0-7679-1503-8, 22, ENCYCLOPEDIA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (United States Government), Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,weblink 11 January 2014, An office memorandum he sent to his colleagues in 1963 was addressed to "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network".WEB, Licklider, J. C. R., Topics for Discussion at the Forthcoming Meeting, Memorandum For: Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network, 23 April 1963, Washington, D.C., Advanced Research Projects Agency, via KurzweilAI.net,weblink 2013-01-26, As head of IPTO from 1962 to 1964, "Licklider initiated three of the most important developments in information technology: the creation of computer science departments at several major universities, time-sharing, and networking."Licklider first learned about time-sharing from Christopher Strachey at the inaugural UNESCO Information Processing Conference in Paris in 1959.BOOK,weblink registration, How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web, Gillies, James M., Gillies, James, Gillies, James and Cailliau Robert, Cailliau, R., 2000, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-286207-5, 13, en, By the late 1960s, his promotion of the concept had inspired a primitive version of his vision called ARPANET. ARPANET expanded into a network of networks in the 1970s that became the Internet.

See also

• History of the Internet

References

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Further reading

• BOOK, Jones, Steve, Encyclopedia of New Media,weblink registration, 2003, Sage Publications, via Internet Archive limited preview, 0-7619-2382-9, 2007-11-03, 287,
• NEWS, Page, Dan and Cynthia Lee, Looking Back at Start of a Revolution, UCLA Today, The Regents of the University of California (UC Regents), 1999,weblink 2007-11-03,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071224090235weblink">weblink 2007-12-24, dead,
• WEB,weblink Hauben, Ronda, 19 March 2001, Draft for Comment 1.001, "The Information Processing Techniques Office and the Birth of the Internet", Microsoft Word, 2007-11-03,

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