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They trace the web of conversations that brought their ideas to the office of Bob Taylor, Licklider's successor.
Licklider got rid of the fanciful war games, substituting something that must have sounded equally bizarre--the creation of an "Intergalactic Network."
In two short years on the job (he returned to MIT in 1964), Licklider poured enough money into America's universities to influence an entire generation of computer scientists, of whom some would go on to invent video games, the mouse, the metaphor of "windows" and "icons" and, of course, the Internet itself.
Readers who want a more complete picture should read two other books: Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), which gives a still-fresh account of MIT's Project MAC (not coincidentally funded by Licklider), an enterprise dominated by the "hacker ethic"--the compulsive urge to explore and improve on things.
Licklider may be the most influential little-known person in the history of computer science.