Submission + - BBC Interviews Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, Creators of Arpanet (bbc.com)
dbialac writes: Charley Duvall states: I saw the work we were doing at SRI as a critical part of a larger vision, that of information workers connected to each other and sharing problems, observations, documents and solutions. What we did not see was the commercial adoption nor did we anticipate the phenomenon of social media and the associated disinformation plague. Although, it should be noted, that in [SRI computer scientist] Douglas Engelbart's 1962 treatise describing the overall vision, he notes that the capabilities we were creating would trigger profound change in our society, and it would be necessary to simultaneously use and adapt the tools we were creating to address the problems which would arise from their use in society.
Charley Kline and Bill Duvall were early inventors of networking, networks that would ultimately lead to what is today the Internet. Duvall had basic ideas what might come of the networks, but they had no idea of how much of a phenomenon it would turn into. Today marks the 55th anniversary of the first communications they made over what was then called Arpanet.
