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BBC Interviews Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, Creators of Arpanet


The BBC interviewed scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall 55 years after the first communications were made over a system called Arpanet, short for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. "Kline and Duvall were early inventors of networking, networks that would ultimately lead to what is t...

The BBC interviewed scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall 55 years after the first communications were made over a system called Arpanet, short for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Here's an excerpt from the interview: BBC: What did you expect Arpanet to become?Duvall:"I saw the work we were doing at SRI as a critical part of a larger vision, that of information workers connected to each other and sharing problems, observations, documents and solutions. What aspects of the internet today remind you of Arpanet?Duvall: Referring to the larger vision which was being created in Engelbart's group (the mouse, full screen editing, links, etc.

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