The History Of The Internet And World Wide Web

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ssors, Robert Taylor, Ivan Sutherland, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the significance of networking. After informal conversations with Licklider at the Second Congress on Information System Sciences in Hot Springs, Virginia, in November 1964, Roberts "concluded that the most important problem in the computer field before us at the time was computer networking; the ability to access one computer from another easily and economically to permit resource sharing." Roberts recalled, "That was a topic in which Licklider was very interested and his enthusiasm infected me." (Hauben, 1995)
Licklidcomputer science. It also was an important beginning to the ARPANET, and later, the Internet. Taylor commented on Licklider’s ideas:

"Lick was among the first to perceive the spirit of community
created among the users of the first time-sharing systems...
In pointing out the community phenomena created, in part, by
the sharing of resources in one timesharing system, Lick made
it easy to think about interconnecting the commun...