Who invented the internet?

Question

Is there any one person who can take credit for "inventing" the Internet?

Answer 1

Berners-Lee Answers !

- Did you invent the Internet?
No, no, no!

When I was doing the WWW, most of the bits I needed were already done.

Vint Cerf and people he worked with had figured out the Internet Protocol, and also the Transmission Control Protocol.

Paul Mockapetris and friends had figured out the Domain Name System.

People had already used TCP/IP and DNS to make email, and other cool things. So I could email other people who maybe would like to help work on making the WWW.

I didn't invent the hypertext link either. The idea of jumping from one document to another had been thought about lots of people, including Vanevar Bush in 1945, and by Ted Nelson (who actually invented the word hypertext). Bush did it before computers really existed. Ted thought of a system but didn't use the internet. Doug Engelbart in the 1960's made a great system just like WWW except that it just ran on one [big] computer, as the internet hadn't been invented yet. Lots of hypertext systems had been made which just worked on one computer, and didn't link all the way across the world.

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and -- ta-da! -- the World Wide Web.


> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Good luck!

Answer 2

Tim Berners-Lee

In the beginning, Tim created the HyperText Markup Language. The Internet was without form and void, and text was upon the face of the monitor and the Hands of Tim were moving over the face of the keyboard. And Tim said, Let there be links; and there were links. And Tim saw that the links were good; and Tim separated the links from the text. Tim called the links Anchors, and the text He called Other Stuff. And the whole thing together was the first Web Page.

The internet wasn't his invention but he gave it wings.

Answer 3

I beleive that the army had control of it for a while at first to let groups know where each other was and tank movments now the army uses it to deleiver a tomahalk missle right to you door if they want LOL pin point no error hit the target day or night any type of weather. I remember I first heard of a big rush to the net around 1994 and a few of my people dropped my BBS and went to the net and then I seen them back with me . I asked them why they came back they said it was to cold . that was then look how much it has changed and what more is going to change if congress has there ways with it. almost like Computers taking over everything and internet is the core LOL
and goverment want to tag all and everything even us in time with a data tracking chip that would be inplanted in the left arm bone right at the albow. It would contain all your crimes your name address health records if your wanted by the law and a lot of other things or tell doctors things that might be going on in your body

Answer 4

Despite his diffidence about his achievement, Tim Berners-Lee was the major moving force.

Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (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.

The first Web site built was at http://info.cern.ch/ and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own.

While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are still simple, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine them in a way which is still discovering its full potential. Perhaps his greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that their standards must be based on royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone.

In 2002, the British public named him among the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, according to a BBC poll spanning the entire history of the nation.

Answer 5

I might be wrong on this but around 1974 two gentlemen Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn wrote a paper which began the internet.

Answer 6

Everyone knows Al Gore inventer the internet. . . . He said he did. It must be true.

Answer 7

Tim Berners-Lee

Answer 8

Mr Bill Gates, the smartest man in the world.

Answer 9

I don't have idea, but it's one of the best invention :)

Answer 10

Al Gore says he did. Freakin nutcase.