who invented the internet?
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"No one person invented the Internet", here is a page that gives information on the people who were instrumental in its development.\nhttp://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventednet.html\n\nThe world wide web on the other hand was "invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990. In 1989, while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research)"\n\nhttp://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html
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Per Wikipedia:\n\n"Contrary 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\nCheck the link below for the full story of how the internet was first created (there really was not one person who made it).
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A brief internet history \n\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
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Since the 21st Century started in 2000, the computer and internet would not be a vaild response. I believe the greatest invention is the i-Pod. :)
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Bill Gates.\n\nNo question about it. Fully documented.
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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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Al Gore once gave some horse-hockey answer about how since he sponsored some bill enabling some technologies, he could claim to be "Father of the Internet".  Basically, the media ran with that.\n\nOh, and quoting Al Franken is about as lame as one can get.
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most likely Al Gore since according to him, he invented the internet :-)
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I guess you could say that, but only in the sense that so relatively few homes had Internet access like we know it today. There were existing versions of what we'd call the Internet before then, though - namely, ARPANET.\n\nAnd Al Gore had little to nothing to do with its creation.
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The Internet started as an experiment in the late 1960s by the Advanced Research Projects\nAgency (ARPA, now called DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. DARPA\nexperimented with the connection of computer networks by giving grants to multiple\nuniversities and private companies to get them involved in the research.\nIn December 1969, an experimental network went online with the connection of a four-node\nnetwork connected via 56 kbps circuits. The new technology proved to be highly successful\nand led to the creation of two similar military networks—MILNET in the U.S. and MINET in\nEurope. Thousands of hosts and users subsequently connected their private networks\n(universities and government) to the ARPANET, thus creating the initial "ARPA Internet."\nFigures 1-1 and 1-2 illustrate the ARPANET in the early days, from its inception in 1969 to its growing number of connectors in 1976.\nBy 1985, the ARPANET was heavily utilized and burdened with congestion. In response, the\nNational Science Foundation initiated phase 1 development of the NSFNET. The NSFNET\nwas composed of multiple regional networks and peer networks (such as the NASA Science\nNetwork) connected to a major backbone that constituted the core of the overall NSFNET.\nIn its earliest form, in 1986, the NSFNET created a more distributed, three-tiered network\narchitecture. This architecture connected campuses and research organizations to regional\nnetworks, which in turn connected to a main backbone network linking six nationally funded\nsupercomputer centers. The original links of 56 kbps were upgraded in 1988 to faster T1\n(1.544 Mbps) links. This was a result of the 1987 NSF competitive solicitation for faster\nnetwork service, awarded to Merit Network, Inc. and its partners MCI, IBM, and the state of\nMichigan. The NSFNET T1 backbone connected a total of 13 sites, including Merit.
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There is no inventor for internet. It is more of development of a network, that we call as internet today. Here is the history\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\n\nThe network gained a public face in the 1990s. In August 1991 CERN in 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 in Switzerland.\n\nSir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL) (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.\n\nIn 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.
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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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Fascinating facts about the invention\nof the Internet by Vinton Cerf in 1973. INTERNET \n \nThe Internet is a worldwide network of thousands of computers and computer networks. It is a public, voluntary, and cooperative effort between the connected institutions and is not owned or operated by any single organization.  The Internet and Transmission Control Protocols were initially developed in 1973 by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf as part of a project sponsored by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and directed by American engineer Robert Kahn.   \nThe Internet began as a computer network of ARPA (ARPAnet) that linked computer networks at several universities and research laboratories in the United States. The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).\n\n"The DESIGN of Internet was done in 1973 and published in 1974. There ensued about 10 years of hard work, resulting in the roll out of Internet in 1983. Prior to that, a number of demonstrations were made of the technology - such as the first three-network interconnection demonstrated in November 1977 linking SATNET, PRNET and ARPANET in a path leading from Menlo Park, CA to University College London and back to USC/ISI in Marina del Rey, CA." . - Vinton Cerf explains the timing:\n\nInternet, interconnection of computer networks that enables connected machines to communicate directly. The term popularly refers to a particular global interconnection of government, education, and business computer networks that is available to the public. There are also smaller internets, usually for the private use of a single organization, called intranets.\n\nInternet technology is a primitive precursor of the Information Superhighway, a theoretical goal of computer communications to provide schools, libraries, businesses, and homes universal access to quality information that will educate, inform, and entertain. In early 1996, the Internet interconnected more than 25 million computers in over 180 countries and continues to grow at a dramatic rate.\n\nHow Internets Work\nInternets are formed by connecting local networks through special computers in each network known as gateways. Gateway interconnections are made through various communication paths, including telephone lines, optical fibers, and radio links. Additional networks can be added by linking to new gateways. Information to be delivered to a remote machine is tagged with the computerized address of that particular machine.\n\nDifferent types of addressing formats are used by the various services provided by internets (see Internet address). One format is known as dotted decimal, for example: 123.45.67.89. Another format describes the name of the destination computer and other routing information, such as "machine.dept.univ.edu." The suffix at the end of the internet address designates the type of organization that owns the particular computer network, for example, educational institutions (.edu), military locations (.mil), government offices (.gov), and non-profit organizations (.org). Networks outside the United States use suffixes that indicate the country, for example (.ca) for Canada.\n\nOnce addressed, the information leaves its home network through a gateway. It is routed from gateway to gateway until it reaches the local network containing the destination machine. Internets have no central control, that is, no single computer directs the flow of information. This differentiates internets from other types of online computer services, such as CompuServe, America Online, and the Microsoft Network.\n\nThe Internet Protocol\nThe Internet Protocol is the basic software used to control an internet. This protocol specifies how gateway machines route information from the sending computer to the recipient computer. Another protocol, Transmission Control Protoc
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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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We all know (because he told us so) that Al Gore created the internet! ;-)
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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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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.