Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The Origins Of The Internet
From Chapter One
February, 1966
Bob Taylor usually drove to work, thirty minutes through the rolling countryside northeast of Washington, over the Potomac River to the Pentagon. There, in the morning, he'd pull into one of the vast parking lots and try to put his most-prized possession, a BMW 503, someplace he could remember. There were few if any security checkpoints at the entrances to the Pentagon in 1966. Taylor breezed in wearing his usual attire: sport coat, tie, button-down short-sleeve shirt, and slacks. Thirty thousand other people swarmed through the concourse level daily, in uniform and mufti alike, past the shops and up into the warrens of the enormous building.
Taylor's office was on the third floor, the most prestigious level in the Pentagon, near ... read full excerpt from Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet ebook
