In 1965, the Association of Computing Machinery hosted its 20th annual conference. If packets are lost at any given point, the message can be resent by the originator.” Paul Baran This was crucial to the realization of a computer network. “Packet switching is the breaking down of data into datagrams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destination of the information and the forwarding of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information arrives at its final destination computer. For this method to work, messages would have to be split into blocks, and each would travel to its destination independent of the rest. Dvisruption of one route would allow information to reach it's destination through other routes automatically. Paul Baran, a scientist at the RAND Corporation (a national defence think tank), proposed the creation of a communication network that would have several possible routes between any two points. Survival after an atomic war was given importance, and protecting the nation's modes of communication was given high priority.

These funds were to allow the US to regain the upper hand in technological superiority, particularly in the field of weapons research.

The seed of the Internet was planted in the following year, when President Eisenhower allocated over a billion dollars for US research and development centres, including the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which was located in the then new Pentagon building.

History of internet