<ul><li>The Internet was created in 1966 by Robert Taylor to solve the issue of having too many computer terminals in his office.</li><li>Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (ARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office.</li><li>Teletype terminals were used to access computers, and each one connected to a different mainframe computer with different procedures to log in.</li><li>ARPA funded multiple research projects but lacked a network to connect all the computers, which led to the creation of the Internet.</li></ul>

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