Who invented the internet?
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The US ARMY in 1966. The military used it since then to communicate and share data. The military can still control it and can shut it off without warning. Go ahead and laugh. It is true no matter what Al Gore says.
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I would say Tim Berners Lee, who basically invented the World Wide Web.  He also created the first web browser and currently directs the World Wide Web Consortium.
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The Internet has its roots in a networking project started by the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. ARPA's goal was to build a net work that allowed scientists at different physical locations share information and work together on military and scientific projects and could function even if part of the network were disabled or destroyed by a disaster such as a nuclear attack. That network, called ARPANET, became functional in Sep. 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers across the United States. By 1984, ARPANET had more than 1000 individual computers linked as hosts. Today, more than 200 million hosts connect to the Internet.
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The internet was originally created for the US government as a wayof communication during wartime. There were two servers MAE east MAE west all of which military communication went through. Today those same servers still are there ( little upgraded :)\n\nThe government project failed and they handed it over to the universities. Hence, the public internet born...
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Google. They invented it.
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The underlying ideas of the Web can be traced as far back as 1980, when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built ENQUIRE (referring to Enquire Within Upon Everything, a book Berners-Lee recalled from his youth). While it was rather different from the Web we use today, it contained many of the same core ideas and even some of the ideas of Berners-Lee's next project after the WWW, the Semantic Web.
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... and here is an easy to follow timeline dealing with the creation of the internet.\n\nhttp://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/\n\nCheers!
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*************************************************************\n\nComputer engineer, Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email in late 1971. Under ARPAnet several major innovations occurred: email (or electronic mail), the ability to send simple messages to another person across the network (1971). Ray Tomlinson worked as a computer engineer for Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the company hired by the United States Defense Department to build the first Internet in 1968.\n\nRay Tomlinson was experimenting with a popular program he wrote called SNDMSG that the ARPANET programmers and researchers were using on the network computers (Digital PDP-10s) to leave messages for each other. SNDMSG was a "local" electronic message program. You could only leave messages on the computer that you were using for other persons using that computer to read. Tomlinson used a file transfer protocol that he was working on called CYPNET to adapt the SNDMSG program so it could send electronic messages to any computer on the ARPANET network.\n\nRay Tomlinson chose the @ symbol to tell which user was "at" what computer. The @ goes inbetween the user's login name and the name of his/her host computer.\n\nThe first email was sent between two computers that were actually sitting besides each other. However, the ARPANET network was used as the connection between the two. The first email message was "QWERTYUIOP".\n\nTim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, defining HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators).\n\n***********************************************************
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Your question doesn't exactly have one answer.  Dial-up was massively introduced about 10 years ago.  However, the earliest recorded use of communication between computers through a data line began in the 1950s.  Joseph Licklider was actually one of the pioneers for global connectivity.  He was considered an expert in "artificial intelligence."    Google Mr. Licklider and you'll get more information on his contributions to dial-up networking.
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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.
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what has this to do with the Internet?
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The first on-line website appeared in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone. A copy of the original first Web page, created by Tim Berners-Lee, is kept http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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Alan Curtis Kay is considered as the Father of Personal Computing.\n\nFor more info: http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=27397
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The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. Kleinrock's packet switching theory was confirmed. Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet.\nThe Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). The contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969. By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were added. By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added. In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.\n\nThe Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.\n\nThe early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.
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I'll tell you if you answer a question first - how can so many young kids like you figure out how to use the Internet for communication and games but not to research the simplest of questions?  \n\nDid you Google this or look it up on Wikipedia?
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the first computer was made by an english man called charles babbage in the 1800s. it was like a calculater and was the size of a house. \nt
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According to the book by Dan Brown called "Angels & Demons" a research facility called CERN in Europe (Geneva, Switzerland to be exact) invented the internet.  It started out at as way for the scientists at the facility to view other's research by looking at web pages throughout their network and developed into what it is now.