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'''Intergalactic Computer Network''' or '''Galactic Network'''<ref>{{cite web|author=Leiner, Barry M. et al.|title="Origins of the Internet" in A Brief History of the Internet version 3.32|publisher=The Internet Society|date=2003-12-10| url=http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins|accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> 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 [[The Pentagon]]'s [[DARPA|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.’”<ref name="Garreau2006">{{cite book|last=Garreau|first=Joel|title=Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies--and what it Means to be Human|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YCuOKOD5nY4C&pg=PA22|year=2006|publisher=Broadway|isbn=978-0-7679-1503-8|page=22}}</ref><ref name=britannica>{{cite web | title=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (United States Government) | work=Encyclopædia Britannica | publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. | url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/745612/Defense-Advanced-Research-Projects-Agency-DARPA#ref829305 | accessdate=11 January 2014 }}</ref> An office memorandum he sent to his colleagues in 1963 was addressed to "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network".<ref>{{cite web|author=Licklider, J. C. R.|title=Topics for Discussion at the Forthcoming Meeting, Memorandum For: Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network|date=23 April 1963|___location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Advanced Research Projects Agency, via KurzweilAI.net |url=http://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network|accessdate=2013-01-26}}</ref> 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.”<ref name=britannica/> By the late 1960s, his promotion of the concept had inspired a primitive version of his vision called [[Arpanet]], which expanded into a network of networks in the 1970s that became the [[Internet]].<ref name="Garreau2006"/>
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