Where Wizards Stay Up Late: ARPANET and the Birth of the Internet

In this episode of Internet Origins, we explore Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. From Cold War labs to university basements, a small group of researchers built the ARPANET—the network that became the Internet. Guided by visionary figures like J.C.R. Licklider and fueled by ARPA’s daring experiments, they turned a dream of connected computers into the foundation of the digital age.