the prospective users discovered it and started using it ... so you are also one among the discoverers ... isn't it?
2006-06-13 20:06:49
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answered by TJ 5
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hello,
No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs:
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. 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.
hope this answer your question :)
2006-06-14 03:03:31
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answered by drollih 1
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The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the U.S. to create the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. DARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) 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 (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, the "eve" network of today's Internet.
The 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 1995. Important separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged into 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 since the 1970s. This network eventually merged with the others in the 1990s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. 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.
The network gained a public face in the 1990s. In August 1991 CERN, which straddles the border between France and 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 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.
Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks such as FidoNet have remained separate). This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network.
2006-06-14 03:04:30
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answered by george 4
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I think the orgins of the net work from a grant that was given in the 80's to some schools on the west coast to create a link between computers. It was successful and initially used for government computers
2006-06-14 04:43:13
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answered by Chad 7
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It wasn't invented by just one person or just one group. Several peoples ideas helped create it. Check out the website and read about it. Hope this helps answer your question.
I had the correct answer first.
2006-06-14 03:02:33
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answered by Tina 6
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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense
2006-06-14 03:04:05
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answered by Mighty Mouse 1
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the guy who invented big sticks
2006-06-14 03:18:17
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answered by Anonymous
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The government as a way to communicate quickly between countries...I think it was the U.S. or England
2006-06-14 03:02:59
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answered by Alias Anarchist 3
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I am sure it wasn't me. However, I heard Al Gore contributed to it, including Osama Bin Laden.
2006-06-14 03:12:32
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answered by Anonymous
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the scientist in CERN.. based on the Switzerland.. used to be a Milnet or Military Network..
2006-06-14 03:02:49
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answered by conel 3
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US army for share data(to don't loose data by attacks)
2006-06-14 03:03:23
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answered by Anonymous
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