There's only one minor problem with this reporting. The Internet does not date back to the 1960s, nor was it designed in the 1960s. In this column we'll review some of the important players and milestones that contributed to the Internet as we know it today.
History is pretty clear on that point.
Alexander Graham Bell gets almost universal credit for inventing the telephone. In fact, others were right on his heels with similar research, but Bell managed to secure financing and make a business with his invention. We think of Edison and Bell as solitary inventors. As technology has advanced in the twentieth century, it's harder and harder to identify a sole inventor of a new technology. As we'll see, so it goes with Internet technologies.