Did Al Gore Create the Internet?
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Ermmm...NO!...lol...;
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Al Gore is a looser; Head of the liberals. I think he is out here answering questions; as answergirl or ultrafemale.
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John Henry Google.  He and Al Gore invented the internet and then he went on to invent search engines and toasters.
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Depends on your definition of when the Internet began, but Ray Tomlinson sent the first network e-mail.  Please check the linked source for the full story.
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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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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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... 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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The Internet is revolutionizing and enhancing the way we as humans communicate, both locally and around the globe. Simply put, the Internet is a network of linked computers allowing participants to share information on those computers. You should want to be a part of it because the Internet literally puts a world of information and a potential worldwide audience at your fingertips.\n\n Internet History: The Internet's roots can be traced to the 1950s with the launch of Sputnik, the ensuing space race, the Cold War and the development of ARPAnet (Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), but it really took off in the 1980s when the National Science Foundation used ARPAnet to link its five regional supercomputer centers. From there evolved a high-speed backbone of Internet access for many other types of networks, universities, institutions, bulletin board systems and commercial online services. The end of the decade saw the emergence of the World Wide Web, which heralded a platform-independent means of communication enhanced with a pleasant and relatively easy-to-use graphical interface. Here is a link to an excellent Internet timeline at PBS Online.\n\n Internet Activity: The information superhighway is literally buzzing with activity as Internet pipelines pump out all manner of files, movies, sounds, programs, video, e-mail, live chat, you name it. Yet amid all this activity there are always two key players in every transaction: a server and a client.\n\nServers are computers with a 24-hour Internet connection that provide access to their files and programs. These can be but are not limited to educational institutions, commercial companies, organizations, government or military organizations, Internet access providers and various other computer networks of all sizes. \n\nClients are software programs (and the people on remote computers using the software!) used to access files on a server (typically, a Web browsing program such as Netscape Navigator or an e-mail program such as Eudora). \nServers are typically located and organized by IP address and domain.\n\nAn IP address (IP stands for Internet Protocol) is a specific set of numbers referring to a server's exact location on a network. Most domains have their own IP address, for instance, 192.41.20.33 is the IP address of my server at webcurrent.com. You can type those numbers in to get there, but the domain is easier to remember. An IP address also leaves your fingerprints wherever you "surf" on the net. Each modem connection typically is designated a specific IP address at Internet providers (this number typically changes dynamically as users log in), so you never really surf the net anonymously. You can be traced to a point. \nA domain is part of the server's official name on the network, an alias for the less descriptive IP numbers. Domains are organized by type of organization (a three-letter suffix) and by country (a two-letter suffix which defaults to the U.S. if no suffix is specified). You can tell a lot about a server by looking at its domain name. \nHere are some typical organizational suffixes: com=commercial, edu=educational, gov=government, int=international, mil=military, net=network, org=organization. \nHere are some country codes: au=Australia, at=Austria, be=Belgium, br=-Brazil, dk=Denmark, jp=Japan, nz=New Zealand, ru=Russian Federation, uk=United Kingdom, ch=Switzerland. \n\nPrivacy. Don't post or write anything you wouldn't mind anyone else seeing. Remember your information is not secure nor is your e-mail necessarily private. It's supposed to be, but that isn't always the case. Also, never EVER send your credit card number via email. If you're ordering something online, be sure the web page you are entering data into is served from a secure server (https://... more on this in the next section). Helpful links: \n\nSecurity. To enhance security, many networks have encrypted, secure transmission met
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The internet started off as a little speck of dust that exploded...or was that the big bang theory?
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Al Gore was the key politician in the Senate that made the push for the Internet to become the free and open information highway that it is today instead of a private entity.  He was instrumental in writing and getting passed several pieces of legislation to put into effect what you know as "the internet".  Did he invent the technology?  No.  Did he have a major part in making it the concept that it is today?  Absolutely.\n\nHis relationship with Tipper is a goofy one though, while he was way ahead of his time on the technology curve, his wife was instrumental in setting back censorship laws almost 100 years.  Maybe opposites do attract.\n\nFor consideration, say a new bridge needed to be built in your town.  You could say the Mayor is responsible for it, but he didn't weld the steel, draw the blueprints, or pay for it from his own pocket.  He saw the necessity for it though, provided the leadership, and drew up the policy that brought those things together to build that bridge.\n\nThank you Al.
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No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs:\n\n(1) Leonard 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.\n\n(2) J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network."\n\n(3) Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.\n\n(4) Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973.\n\n(5) By 1983, TCP was the standard and ARPANET began to resemble the modern Internet in many respects. The ARPANET itself was taken out of commission in 1990. Most restrictions on commercial Internet traffic ended in 1991, with the last limitations removed in 1995. NCSA Mosaic web browser also came out in 1993, the first browser that supported both text and graphics.\n\nFor an excellent article on history and evolution of the Internet, refer to the following links:\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml\n\nOn the lighter side, as popularly said, 'Al Gore' invented the internet. That's not the truth. Refer to http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AjD6K1uz8OfCRUVj37IHU_YjzKIX?qid=1005121801557 to get an insight on this issue.
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what has this to do with the Internet?
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A brief internet history \n\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
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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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Creation of Internet - \nThe 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. \n\nPeople behind it: Licklider, Lawrence Roberts, Paul Baran for the military\nFirst node went live: Oct 29, 1969, UCLA\nBirth place: UCLA campus\n\nThe first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983 (this is technically the birth of the Internet), when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. 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\nName first given to it: NSFNet\nFirst operational: Jan 1 1983 (birth of internet as we know it)\nNational campuses - birthplace of internet framework\n\nAs of January 2006, over 1 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats
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Al Gore created it. Ask him, he'll tell you.
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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.