Who invented or created the internet?
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The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the U.S. to create the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to regain a U.S. technological lead. DARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, the "eve" network of today's Internet.
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Al Gore invented the internet.  He said so.
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The United States Military started the Internet in the 1960's, it was called ARPANET. It was used as a computer network for thousands of government employees around the world to communicate. Science and Technology researchers were the first non-military users of the internet. In the early 1990's the government changed polices that restricted private and business uses of the Internet. By 1992 dozens of new companies offered direct internet acsess to individuals. \n\nSo, the Internet wasn't really properly introduced.
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One of the most readable and enjoyable histories of the Internet is a wonderful book named, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late."\n\nit gives a much more intersting and humane history than the long article re-published here.  Among other things, it shows that the Internet pre-dates Sputnik and ARPANET.  The original effort was launched not too very long after President Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953 and got around to establishing one of his think tanks, known as Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA).  Eisenhower just LOVED  experts.\n\nThe initial motivation was to figure out how to link early military command-and-control computer resources despite destruction from an enemy attack.  And the problem, it turned out, was that monopoly phone company AT&T was very happy with how it managed communications.  Unfortunately, that management meant one enemy strike could shut down everything in the country - or near enough.  Eventually, the DARPA crew was forced to figure out how it could completely by-pass the phone company, which refused to help with the task, so that computers could talk to each other when needed.\n\nThat is the germ of the Internet.  Later, all the things the others have published happened.  But LATER.
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Ray Thomlinson of BBN.\n\nHe created e-mail in 1971 as one of the first distributed applications to run on ARPANET, the origial precursor to the Internet.\n\nASIDE TO DEARDEB:\nI'm sure Mr. Gore appreciates you straightening that out for us all, since he never claimed to have invented anything.
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since the internet only began just over a decade ago (the first web page is about fifteen i think, the internet has grown a lot.\nif you google ' history of ther internet' or go onto wikipedia you will get a basic idea of the numbers involved.  once the preserve of the dedicated few, most western countries are over 50% saturation for some kind of internet service
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Creation of the Internet\nMain article: History of the Internet \nThe USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the U.S. to create the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. DARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, the "eve" network of today's Internet. In December of 1970, Charles A. Petrik contacted the U.S. Navy and suggested that a special communications network, that the Department of Defense had built for use in the possiblitity of a nuclear attack, could also be used during peace time. Petrik convinced the military to connect the computers of the U.S. National Laboratories for scientific research purposes, and to allow these labs to get data to other labs faster, and safer.\n\nThe first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983 , when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.) It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1995. Important separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged into the Internet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 networks such as Compuserve and JANET. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of Internet as a phrase to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.\n\nThe network gained a public face in the 1990s. In August 1991 CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few web pages at CERN (which was set up by international treaty and not bound by the laws of either France or Switzerland). In 1993 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the Mosaic web browser version 1.0, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 the word "Internet" was common public currency, but it referred almost entirely to the World Wide Web.\n\nMeanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks such as FidoNet have remained separate). This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network.
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most likely Al Gore since according to him, he invented the internet :-)
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Article on this:\nhttp://www.w3.org/Consortium/\nTimeline:\nhttp://www.w3.org/History.html\n\nYou asked, "What was the first website ever?" Well, that depends on your definition of "web site." It would be great if there was a nice clear-cut answer, but, like most inventions, the world wide web didn't just pop into existence all at once....It happened (and is still happening) in stages. A reasonable answer might be the site that Tim Berners-Lee put together at CERN for the development of the first Browser/Editor, called WorldWideWeb, in 1990. But people might say, no, that didn't have enough in it of what we would today call "web technology" to qualify. Others might say, no, there were earlier things that qualify like Vanevar Bush's " As We May Think" article in the July 1945 Atlantic Monthly.\n\nBut I'll stick with whatever test data Berners-Lee used in the development of the program called WorldWideWeb. Certainly by 1993, there were several sites at CERN that qualified by most people's definition.
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The internet was basically a file sharing mechanism, developed by the military.  I think the number one item before porn took over was investments (stocks, etc.)  Now porn is numero uno, yee haa!!
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Bill Gates.\n\nNo question about it. Fully documented.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
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I guess u mean who is thr discoverer of computers..well the Father of Computers is Charles Babbage.
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Yahoo was created in April 1994 by two Ph.D. candidates in Electrical engineering named David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford University in California. Both have been instrumental in building Yahoo into the world's most highly trafficked web site and one of the Internets most recognised brands
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But I thought you invented the internet. Shouldn't you know a little more about computers?
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This is what he actually said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999: \n\n"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."\n\nYou can decide for yourself whether he was actually claiming to have invented the Internet, or was he just being his usual pompous self (or both?)
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The internet started with a concept of operations that did not require any single line to remain open. The idea was something like a "web", so that if any node, or even several nodes were disconnected, information could still be passed from one place to another relatively quickly. One of the first theoretical applications of this is in the USA was intended as a way for the government to continue to operate during a nuclear war with the USSR. Over time, this became more popular with a commercially based crowd and eventually the world-wide web emerged as a standard.