who invented the internet?

Answer 1

I asked this question about 3 weeks ago, the answer below was voted the best answer.

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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/kid...

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tim_berners...

Good luck!

Answer 2

The history of the Internet dates back to the early development of communication networks. The idea of a computer network intended to allow general communication among users of various computers has developed through a large number of stages. The melting pot of developments brought together the network of networks[1] that we know as the Internet. This included both technological developments and the merging together of existing network infrastructure and telecommunication systems.

The earliest versions of these ideas appeared in the late 1950s. Practical implementations of the concepts began during the late 1960s and 1970s. By the 1980s, technologies we now recognize as the basis of the modern Internet began to spread over the globe. In the 1990s the introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW) saw its use become commonplace.

The infrastructure of the Internet spread across the globe to create the world wide network of computers we know today. It spread throughout the Western nations and then begged a penetration into the developing countries, thus creating both unprecedented worldwide access to information and communications and a digital divide in access to this new infrastructure. The Internet went on to fundamentally alter and affect the economy of the world, including the economic implications of the dot-com bubble and offshore outsourcing of White-collar workers.

Answer 3

Al Gore

Answer 4

Al Gore....

Haha... just kidding. It began as a Department of Defense project and escalated.

Answer 5

Al Gore
or did I just looked at the other answers?

Answer 6

Read it 4 yourself

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=who+invented+the+internet&btnG=Search&meta=

Answer 7

al gore and the liberals


yea liberals 2008 our year :-)

Answer 8

Some British bloke ... Tim ...something... !! Ahhhaa cant think of the blokes name...

Answer 9

Hello. - Link Below.

Have a nice day. :)

Answer 10

me and a mate of mine but we failed to patent it!