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Who invented the Internet? Each of the individual Internet application chapters starts with a specific section on the history of how it was invented. This particular section describes the history of the invention of the underlying Internet itself. Norbert Wiener invented the field of cybernetics, inspiring a generation of scientists to think of computer technology as a means to extend human capabilities. DARPA (later ARPA) is the innovative R&D organization that funded the development of the ARPANET. Marshall McLuhan's submission insights made the concept of a global village, interconnected by an electronic nervous system, part of our popular culture well before it actually happened. Donald Davies and his colleagues at the UK National Physical Laboratory independently discovered the idea of packet switching, and later created a smaller scale packet-switched version of the ARPANET. Free internet submissions services UKLeonard Kleinrock is one of the pioneers of digital network communications, and helped build the ARPANET. Leonard Kleinrock received his BEE degree from CCNY in 1957, then went to MIT, where he was a Ph.D. classmate of Lawrence Roberts.  The Interface Message Processor provided a system independent interface to the ARPANET that could be used by any computer system, thereby opening the Internet network architecture from the very beginning. Some of the milestones in the early history of the ARPANET are summarized below: East Coast. In March, 1970, the consulting company Bolt, Beranek & Newman joined the ARPANET, becoming the first ARPANET node on the US east coast.  Remote Access. In September, 1971, the first Terminal Interface Processor.