The first central authority to coordinate the operation of the network was the Network Information Center (NIC) based in Doug Engelbart's lab at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.
The first central authority to coordinate the operation of the network was the Network Information Center (NIC). The NIC was based in Doug Engelbart's lab, the Augmentation Research Center, at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Menlo Park, California.