1958
07.01. Founding the ARPA
On January 1958 former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower founded the ARPA (later renamed DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), not knowing to set the foundation stone for the development of the internet as we know it today.
US President Eisenhower
The founding of ARPA can undoubtedly be seen as the result of the so-called Sputnik Shock. Even back then, the mission for the USA was to maintain the leading position in sciences in the world. This goal has not changed since. ARPA was founded as a quick scientific task force and has always been closely connected to the President and the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Since its founding, ARPA has been characterized by its flat organisational structure without paralysing bureaucracy, allowing a more flexible research work.
ARPA itself did not keep its own research facilities, but it rather funded already existing university and military institutions for their means.
By recruiting scientists such as J.C.R. Licklider and Larry Roberts, who installed the first four nodes of ARPANET in 1969, ARPA set up the cornerstone for the interconnection of the world.
ARPA itself did not keep its own research facilities, but it rather funded already existing university and military institutions for their means.
By recruiting scientists such as J.C.R. Licklider and Larry Roberts, who installed the first four nodes of ARPANET in 1969, ARPA set up the cornerstone for the interconnection of the world.
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USA is suffering from economic recession.
Protests by academics and civilians against nuclear weapons form up in Western industrial nations.
The first Soviet nuclear reactor starts its operation on December 24.
The hula hoop is invented.