who invented the internet?

Answer 1

Here is a website that gives you the timeline and who was involved with the gradual evolution into what we call the internet. The second site gives a similar timeline for the world wide web... they are not the same thing.

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Answer 2

The military did develop the base concepts for the Internet, for very specific military purposes. Luckily these purposes have served a very useful civilian function as well.

The Internet as we know it today has been evolving for some time, and on the surface bares little resemblence to it's origins.

That having been said, it's fundamental functioning remains much the same. Using connectionless packet relay to transfer data through a switched network, allowing routers at each stage to determine the best path for data delivery, was part of the original conceptualization of the Internet.

The driving force behind this was survivability of the network, specifically in regards to catastrophic regional disasters (i.e., nuclear attack). The design of the Internet allows traffic to be rerouted dynamically around failure points throughout the network. In other words traffic going from Boston to LA might route through Chicago, but should there be a catastrophic network failure in Chicago, then routers along the pathway will automatically reroute traffic (let's say through Dallas).

This happens automatically as routers along the way know several routes to a particular destination, and assign each route a "cost" or metric according to how long it will take to reach a destination on that route. If a route fails, it's "cost" becomes infinite and the router will place traffic on a different route. The same happens if a particular route becomes congested...the metric/"cost" of that route goes up. Once a metric is higher than an alternative route's, that alternative route is used.

You'd do well to read the Wikipedia entry on history if you want the who's and when's.

Answer 3

The Internet, as most out there know it, was to make a long story short, a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Federal Government. The bulk of the actual coding and testing was done by Universities and some individuals. It's original intenet (as view by DARPA anyway) was to develop a computer networking protocol that would allow computers to find and utilize any communications path available, in the event of nuclear war or other huge disaster. Initialy it was pretty cryptic and difficult for most people to understand and utilize until the advent of http and other protocols developed to make it more "user friendly".

Answer 4

Al Gore invented the Internet.
George W Bush invented the "Internets".

Answer 5

A bit of clarification on Internet and WWW.

* The World Wide Web, sometimes referred to as "the Web", is an interconnected set of documents and files linked together by hyperlinks and
* The Internet or sometimes just "the Net", is an interconnected set of computers and computer networks, linked to each other by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, microwave links etc.

The Internet as we know it, started of a military project in the US as a way of collaborating with one another, it soon expanded to US universities and education institutes it started as being called the ARPANe as it was developed by Advanced Research Projects Agency Network of the United Stated Department of Defence.

The first message was supposed to be the word "lo gin," but the system crashed as they typed in the letter "g." The first message, then, was "lo." Although it was a bumpy – if not prophetic – beginning, the researchers were able to complete the message one hour later. This happened on the ARPANet.

The World Wide Web (WWW) is created by Tim Berners-Lee of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. This is different to the Internet.

Answer 6

Sir Tim Berners-Lee didn't invent the internet. But he did invent the WorldWide Web.

Answer 7

No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. It was many people's idea's. Same as saying "Who Invented Linux?" Linux is made by different people

Answer 8

Vint Cerf, invented the internet..BTW, it is a myth that algore invented the internet..click it>>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/22/vintcerf_takes_off/

Answer 9

I found this:


Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the
Internet and to promote and support its development.

No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the
Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among
people in government and the university community. But as the two people
who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the
Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a
Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to
our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.

Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his
role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the
initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have
argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover,
there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's
initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving
Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and
promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it
is timely to offer our perspective.

As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed
telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the
improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official
to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact
than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily
forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial
concept. Our work on the Internet started in 1973 and was based on even
earlier work that took place in the mid-late 1960s. But the Internet, as we
know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in
the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual
leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high
speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on
how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating
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As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate
what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into
an "Interagency Network." Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials
in Ronald Reagan and George Bush's administrations, Gore secured the
passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in
1991. This "Gore Act" supported the National Research and Education
Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the
spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science.

As Vice President Gore promoted building the Internet both up and out, as
well as releasing the Internet from the control of the government agencies
that spawned it. He served as the major administration proponent for
continued investment in advanced computing and networking and private
sector initiatives such as Net Day. He was and is a strong proponent of
extending access to the network to schools and libraries. Today,
approximately 95% of our nation's schools are on the Internet. Gore
provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the
Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven
operation.

There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet's rapid growth
since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support
for its privatization and continued support for research in advanced
networking technology. No one in public life has been more intellectually
engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the
Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the
councils of government and with the public at large.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value
of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and
consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American
citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world.

Answer 10

actually it was an accident, you might want to believe in intelligent design, but that is not right. It sarted as small local nets trying to figure out hoe to use spare time on one computer to assist in running prodrams on another computer. the navy decided this would save money and make navigation and fire control computers on ships more relible and faster, they funded the studies. the students figured out that they could speak to each other on this system. then all hell broke loose.

edit: wow cheaga, where did you find that