[kelvich]

Licklider is one the main persons behind the ARPANET. The Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger has a lot of context on his time in DARPA. Few things that I found particularly notable:

* Licklider was conscious about not having too much funding compared to other DARPA projects so that in case of a budget cut, there would a more obvious candidates for the slash.

* Initially, universities pushed back on ARPANET because they were afraid that remote access might lead to more candidates for their mainframe time

[kelvich]

And some other projects that DARPA worked on: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/the-bunny-t...