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'''Intergalactic Computer Network''' can be said to be the first conception of what would eventually become the [[Internet]]. [[The Internet Society]] has used a short form '''Galactic Network''' for the same thing.<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> [[J.C.R. Licklider]] used the term at [[DARPA|ARPA]] in 19631962, addressing his colleagues as "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=2013-1-26}}</ref>

==References==