In fact, Hess recalled Licklider inviting ARPA employees to a meeting at the Marriott hotel near the Fourteenth Street Bridge, between the Pentagon and the Potomac River. Licklider had set up equipment to show how someone in the future would use a computer to access information. As Hess recalled, there was a demonstration of how people would have a computer console in their kitchens and use it to access a recipe from a network of connected computers.

