Compose a 1250 words assignment on brief history of the internet. Needs to be plagiarism free! In the early 1960s, J.C.R Licklider from MIT proposed a global network of computers and started to develop that project. Leonard Kleinrock developed the theory of packet switching, which has become the basis for internet connections. In 1965, Lawrence Roberts connected two computers. one in California with his in Massachusetts using Dial-up telephone lines. Internet Society states that this was the first time for two computers to be connected and although it proved the possibility of wide area networking it also showed that telephone lines’ circuit switching was not adequate. Roberts and Licklider both moved to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop their respective plans. These are the true pioneers of the internet because they are the ones who championed the connection of computers all over the world through the internet. The ARPANET, as the internet was referred to as back in the day, was officially brought online in 1969 under a contract by DARPA which was renamed Advanced Computers in the universities in South Western USA namely the University of California (CLA), University of Utah, Stanford Research Institute and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (Howe). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard and Stanford, were added to the list of connections by January 1970. By this time rapid progress was being made thus showing that the internet would soon become a worldwide phenomenon thus achieving its biggest objective.&nbsp.The early internet was mostly used by computer engineers since it was a very complex system of operations. Unlike the internet, as we know it today, APRANET was neither easy to use nor user-friendly.&nbsp.