AN EARLY HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
Leonard Kleinrock · 2010
also offer a personal account of the same events, as an autobiographical element in this story. In doing so, I aim to further contextualize publications from the period — my primary source materials — with details from firsthand experience. This perspective may add to our depth of historical understanding, in which the extent of personal detail does not imply a greater importance to the events presented. In focusing on the work of individual researchers and developers, I rely on the various publications that followed the work of these individuals to link this story to the factual historical record we will follow. There are, of course, many important personal and institutional stories that have yet to be told. The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is heavily mentioned in this column, as it was the site of so much foundational work. I view this period as a synergistic surge of technology, engineered by a magnificent group of researchers and developers amidst a defining period of challenge, creativity, invention, and impact.