Who controls the internet?
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Dude...check out http://www.theshulers.com/whitepapers/internet_whitepaper.html\nI'm sure it will quench ur thirst for knowledge!!
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Internet : \n\n                        The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nContrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail, file sharing, and others described below.\n\n\nCreation of the Internet :\n\nThe Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nThe USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) 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.\n\nIn 1950, Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT where he served on a committee that established MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.\n\nLicklider 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 (as opposed to Circuit 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, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.\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 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet), was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dialup access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation
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If you are referring to Webpages and anything to do with the HTTP protocol (collectively known as the World Wide Web), this was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland, and not America as confused by many.\n\nWhat American  did invent though, was the foundations on which the WWW was created upon. This was called DARPA, and was built to survive nuclear attacks after Russia launched Sputnik and caused fear among the government. See the 2nd link for more detailed information. \n\nSo in essence the american government invented the internet,\nTim Berners-Lee made it possible for people like you and me to use it with web browsers and what not.
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I was actually VERY curious to hear about the upcoming internet 2, although I havent found much information on it at all, I am intrested in Hex IP addressing though (IPv6). Although the question still begs me, how exactly do you make a successor to the internet? Upgrading the backbones, and allowing millions (if not billions) of IP addresses on the network? I have a feeling more is coming that just that.
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All over the internet
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The ones having 'gov' domain are under direct control of that particular government, where as governmant has indirect control over commercial or misc portals that are in a country, example - the recent google v/s China government tussle.
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Does it matter? The Internet is everywhere...
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Obviously it is, but there's nothing anyone's going to do to stop it.  Watch the Terminator movies, especially the third.  The internet is going to turn into Skynet thanks to technology like this.
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an organization called icann control the domain name registrations
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I believe that it is certainly possible, the internet is a big part of what may make it happen because it is getting harder and harder for oppressive govenments to control information (such as China) eventually it will be impossible and people in these govenments will demand to chose how they are governed.
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The question should be, What don't they control?
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What you want in the internet???\nsay me...\nill reply you as soon as possible
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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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icann control the domain name
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Since the Internet is comprised of several computer networks connected together and no one corporation owns or operates all the networks, there is no governing body of the Internet. Three volunteer groups had been formed to help coordinate and guide the technical parts of the Internet:\n\nInternet Activities Board (IAB) - The technical body that oversees the development of the Internet suite of protocols. It has two task  forces, the IETF and IRTF, which are charged with investigating a particular area.\n\nInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - Develops and maintains the Internet’s communication protocols. Addresses problems and coordinates new services.Appoints working groups to define standards, coordinate services between providers and performs the real work.\n\nInternet Research Task Force (IRTF) - Look into long-term research problems that could be critical in five or ten years. \n\nIn addition to the three volunteer groups referenced above, the following projects and organizations have been formed to assist with the development of the Internet.\n\nInternet Network Information Center (InterNic) - project sponsored by the NSF is conducted by AT&T and Network Solutions. The purpose is to provide the various registry services needed for the Internet to operate effectively.\n\nWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - managed by the laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a joint initiative between MIT, CERN, and INRIA to develop standards for the evolution of the Web.
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No one really fully controls the internet, but the world wide web (W3) Consortium sets web standards.
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The FCC for one, they control the airwaves (tv cable cell phones satalitte tv etc) ATF if you smoke or drink or own a firearm, DOT if you drive