The year is 1957 and the USSR has just launched the first artificial earth satellite. In response America launches the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DOD) to create America’s lead in science and technology. The Internet had its humble beginnings here, within ARPA’s many projects. The Internet has become one of the key symbols of today’s pop culture: everything has a “dot com” address; people do not say “call me,” but instead its “I’ll E-mail you;” and the new word on the stock market is “E-business.” The Internet has not always been such a key figure in American life; in fact it was mostly unheard of until recently. The theory for the Internet first started being published in 1961 with Leonard Kleinrock’s document on packet-switching theory, “Information Flow in Large Communicati....

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