No one guy invented the internet. But he orignally started working on it in 1980. See this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
2006-09-14 10:52:14
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answered by PaulN 2
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The World Wide Web (WWW) is so ubiquitous that it seems strange to think that it has only been around for a few years. Indeed, use of the WWW became widespread in the mid 1990's, but its beginnings can actually be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman who had recently graduated from Oxford, landed a temporary contract job as a software consultant at CERN ( the famous European Particle physics Laboratory in Geneva). He wrote a program, called Enquire, which he called a "memory substitute," for his personal use to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab (Wright, 64). This was a very helpful tool since CERN was (and still is) a large international organization involving a multitude of researchers located around the world.
Berners-Lee finished his work at CERN and left, but he returned in 1984 with a more permanent position. His previous work with Enquire had left a mental mark. He envisioned a global information space where information stored on computers everywhere was linked and available to anyone anywhere. There were two technologies already developed that would allow his vision to become reality. In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article entitled, "As We May Think," in which he described a theoretical system for storing information based on associations. Others like Ted Nelson and Douglas Englebart had furthered Bush's work with their own work on hypertext. Hypertext allows documents to be published in a nonlinear format. Hypertext links allow the reader to jump instantly from one electronic document to another. Berners-Lee had already used this format when he wrote Enquire.
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2006-09-14 17:54:24
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answered by Anonymous
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The internet was developed by DARPA, a US government agency as a way of having computer networks that were secure in the event of part of the network becoming unavailable. At the time this was most likely to be because of nuclear attack. This work started in the late 19060's.
Tim-Berners Lee was a researcher at CERN who invented what we know as the web in 1991.
2006-09-14 17:58:37
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answered by Gary UK 2
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He invented the web browser and the first site went live on August 6, 1991.
2006-09-14 17:53:39
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answered by footynutguy 4
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1971
15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames
BBN starts building IMPs using the cheaper Honeywell 316. IMPs however are limited to 4 host connections, and so BBN develops a terminal IMP (TIP) that supports up to 64 terminals (September)
Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents email program to send messages across a distributed network. The original program was derived from two others: an intra-machine email program (SENDMSG) and an experimental file transfer program (CPYNET) (:amk:irh:)
Project Gutenberg is started by Michael Hart with the purpose of making copyright-free works, including books, electronically available. The first text is the US Declaration of Independence (:dhr,msh:)
1972
Ray Tomlinson (BBN) modifies email program for ARPANET where it becomes a quick hit. The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype for its "at" meaning (March)
Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages (July)
International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC) at the Washington D.C. Hilton with demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines and the Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) organized by Bob Kahn. (October)
First computer-to-computer chat takes place at UCLA, and is repeated during ICCC, as psychotic PARRY (at Stanford) discusses its problems with the Doctor (at BBN).
International Network Working Group (INWG) formed in October as a result of a meeting at ICCC identifying the need for a combined effort in advancing networking technologies. Vint Cerf appointed first Chair. By 1974, INWG became IFIP WG 6.1 (:vgc:)
Louis Pouzin leads the French effort to build its own ARPANET - CYCLADES
RFC 318: Telnet specification
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2006-09-14 17:58:27
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answered by funbob 1
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He invented the web browser, not the Internet.
2006-09-14 17:53:11
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answered by D 1
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I'm sorry, but Bill Gates invented the internet. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a fact.
2006-09-14 17:54:47
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answered by Derrick T 2
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Wasn´t it Al Gore lol!?
2006-09-14 17:53:13
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answered by Anonymous
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http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html#invent <
2006-09-14 17:54:52
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answered by Anonymous
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ask al gore he did it
2006-09-14 17:52:33
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answered by Anonymous
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