Who invented the internet?
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The internet was invented in 1989 by an Englishman - Sir Tim Berners Lee.\n\nHe was in the media the other day talking about the future of the internet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5009250.stm\n\nHis official page is here - http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ but there's a good item from Wikipedia here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee\n and Time 100 here - http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/bernerslee.html
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All over the internet
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ARPANET, the "Mother of the Internet,"  began as a U.S. government experiment linking researchers with remote computer centers to allow them to share hardware and software resources.\n\nI hope this helps!\n\n--Stacey
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A brief internet history \n\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
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The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally inter-connected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. \nIn late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", publishing it in 1967. At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL. Scantlebury told Roberts about the NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others at RAND. The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964. It happened that the work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work. The word "packet" was adopted from the work at NPL and the proposed line speed to be used in the ARPANET design was upgraded from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps. \n\nIn August 1968, after Roberts and the DARPA funded community had refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET, an RFQ was released by DARPA for the development of one of the key components, the packet switches called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). The RFQ was won in December 1968 by a group headed by Frank Heart at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). As the BBN team worked on the IMP's with Bob Kahn playing a major role in the overall ARPANET architectural design, the network topology and economics were designed and optimized by Roberts working with Howard Frank and his team at Network Analysis Corporation, and the network measurement system was prepared by Kleinrock's team at UCLA.
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Bill gates invented computers!
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Al Gore. Oh no, wait, that was the internet that he invented. Never mind. Sorry.
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Nobody discovered a computer. It was invented. As far as who acctually invented the computer is still being debated to this day.
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Mr. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)\n\nhttp://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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Good question. Here is a nutshell explanation. There is a lot more to it than this. Others may have a better explanation.\n\nThe internet actually started as separate networks in the 1960s. A group of government people had their own little network. A group of students made their own network. And a group of business people made their own network.\n\nEach of these networks had their own language and were not compatible with the others. Someone eventually created a hypertext language that was compatible with all original languages and allowed the networks to communicate with one another.\n\nOver time more and more networks were formed, primarily government and educational instituations. Business formed an interest in the 1980s and in the 1990s the internet as we know it today was born.\n\nIt is hard to believe that only 16 years ago the net made use of 1200 baud modems and today is thousands times faster.
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You 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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God invented the internet, so the first site was www.bible.com.  If that doesn't work, try www.load_of_crap.com.  They're basically the same thing.
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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 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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During an interview with Wolf Blitzer in 1999, what he actually said was: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."\n\nHe was referring to his involvement with and sponsorship of the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 which advanced the growth and mainstreaming of the Internet during the 1990s.  This statement was later defended by Internet pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf: "As the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. "
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No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs: \nLeonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961. Packet switching is the idea that packets of data can be "routed" from one place to another based on address information carried in the data, much like the address on a letter. Packet switching replaces the older concept of "circuit switching," in which an actual electrical circuit is established all the way from the source to the destination. Circuit switching was the idea behind traditional telephone exchanges.