The Idea Factory That Spawned the Internet Turns 50 
Born in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik, DARPA developed the
Saturn rockets fueling Apollo 11 and made an American the first
Earthling to walk on the moon.
(Nasa)
The best program managers are "freewheeling zealots" with big ideas.
The staff has been called "100 geniuses connected by a travel agent."
And the boss describes his agency as a home for "radical innovation."
It's DARPA
-- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is celebrating
its 50th anniversary with a dinner for 1,700 alumni, friends and
partners Thursday night in Washington.
From its beginning, the Defense Department
agency has looked worldwide for fundamental scientific and technology
discoveries ready for conversion into a blockbuster asset for the
military.
1. History of the Internet
The original motivation of the ARPANET was to link together DARPA-supported computer ... demand among non-DARPA-funded computer science ... watching their DARPA-funded cubicle-
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/history_internet.html
2. Educational CyberPlayGround: TRENDS IN COMPUTING, SECURITY - PAST VS PRESENT...
But the NSA (I am told) told DARPA
that any attempt to introduce security mechanisms into TCP/IP's
architecture would be viewed very negatively. (This happened at about
the same
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/trendsSecurityPastFuture.html
3. Educational CyberPlayGround: Email, Erate, History of @, Email Basics, Filter...Arpanet - ("ARPA" didn't become "
DARPA"
until 1972.) How Email lists were invented. The First Spam? Tom Van
Vleck tvanvlec> at nailabs.com The guy who wrote the CTSS Mail
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/e-mail/Email4.html