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When Bob Taylor had the money for a network, he began to hire people to build it. His first choice for a manager of the project was Larry Roberts. Roberts was perfect for the job because he was an expert in both computers and communications. He had just succeeded in linking two computers on opposite coasts of the USA. Bob Taylor had paid for this work and now he wanted Larry Roberts to go to work at ARPA. The problem was that Roberts did not want to come. He was happy where he was — Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Taylor went to see Charlie Herzfeld again: 'Isn't it true that ARPA is giving Lincoln at least 51 per cent of its money?'
'Yes, it is,' said Herzfeld. 'Would you speak to Larry's boss and make sure he remembers who pays his wages?' So Charlie Herzfeld called Roberts's boss at Lincoln. 'We control more than half of your money,' said Herzfeld. 'So it would be good for Larry Roberts and good for Lincoln Laboratory if Roberts came to ARPA. Why don't you send him down here as fast as you can?' The boss of Lincoln Laboratory quickly called Larry Roberts into his office. 'It would probably be a good thing for all of us if you would take this job. They won't accept "no" for an answer.' Two weeks later Larry Roberts was at ARPA.
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the same methods of persuasion that he had used to get Larry Roberts to ARPA. He phoned each of the universities and said, 'Who pays for your computer?' 'You do,' they replied. 'Then you're going to join this network,' said Bob Taylor. So ARPA got the computers for its network, which Taylor had decided to call the ARPAnet. But it was 1966 and no one in the world really knew how to build a network. Bob Taylor gave Larry Roberts the job of finding computers for the new network. ARPA wanted to use some of the computers that it paid for at universities around the USA. But the people who controlled these machines were not enthusiastic. 'We've got our own work to do,' they said. 'Computer time is too valuable to waste on crazy ideas.' Others were more worried about security: 'The information on these computers is secret,' they told Larry Roberts. 'If my computer starts talking to your computer tomorrow, it'll be talking to the whole of the Soviet Union by the end of the week!' None of the scientists seemed to trust anyone who was not at their own university. 'I don't want any fools from University X to touch my million-dollar computer,' they said. But all of them seemed quite happy to think that they might get their hands on other people's computers. Larry Roberts went for help to Bob Taylor. Taylor simply used Larry Roberts began to make plans. He had the money and he had permission to join together four big computers. But the really important questions about the design of the network had no answers yet. Bob Taylor held a conference for ARPA's computer researchers at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in early 1967. This was Larry Roberts's chance to describe his plans and hear the opinions of the best computer scientists in the USA. At first they were not enthusiastic. Roberts said that he planned to join the computers together directly, with telephone lines. This meant that the 'host' computers would do two jobs: the work they already did, and the extra work of controlling the new network. Most of the audience hated this idea. 'Our computers have too much work already. They can't do another job,' they said. 'Anyway, this network won't work. Every computer in the system will need to understand how to talk to every other computer. There are just too many different types of computer and they all use different languages.' This was a very good point, and Larry Roberts did not have an answer to it. Even if you could link two computers together on a phone line, it would be very hard for them to understand each other. It would be like French and Indian people tryin