Mark Van Haren, Ryan McIntyre, Ben Lutch, Joe Kraus, Graham
Spencer, and Martin Reinfried sat in a taqueria in Redwood City,
CA, on the evening of February 28, and the idea came to them -
create a software tool to manage the vast amount of information
available on the Internet. This was the origin of Excite, one of
the largest search engines.
DARPA was redesignated the Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA) -- as the agency was known before 1972. The change was
outlined in President Bill Clinton's strategy paper,
"Technology for America's Economic Growth, A New Direction
to Build Economic Strength."
