Who is credited to discovering or inventing the internet?

Answer 1

Good Question. Let me know when you find out.

Answer 2

No one person is credited with creating the internet; it began as an outgrowth of the military's desire to maintain national air defense network communications during and after a nuclear war, the first "node" coming online at UCLA on 10/29/1969, and became known as ARPANET, after the Defense Dept. agency that had intiated the project.

A further outgrowth of this was the NSFNet which came online on 01/01/1983 and linked together most of the nations major universties; it was opened to commercial use in 1985.

If any one person can be given credit for the internet, it is J. C. R. Licklider, who was appointed head of the ARPA Information Processing Office in 1962; however, this was very much a team project...

For a more in-depth examination of the subject, the Wikipedia entry on it is excellent (see link below).

Answer 3

Many people working in different areas developed it.

The precursor to the Internet, ARPANET was a large wide-area network created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Established in 1969, ARPANET served as a testbed for new networking technologies, linking many universities and research centers. The first two nodes that formed the ARPANET were UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, followed shortly thereafter by the University of Utah.

Dr. Leonard Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. In this effort, he developed the mathematical theory of data networks. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message to pass over the Internet. He was also responsible for setting up and running the Internet measurement facility that stressed the early Internet to establish its performance limits and to evaluate its performance and behavior. In these efforts, he laid the groundwork and established the discipline by which future generations of engineers would seek to model, measure and evaluate the computer and communication systems they were building.

Answer 4

The internet was developed in 1969 by ARPA, a branch of the US department of defense, as a way to keep their computer network up and running if any one location was ever wiped out. It quickly was adopted by universities and slowly adopted by large corporations.

With the advent of the World Wide Web (with the invention of HTTP and HTML by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990), the rest of the world started paying more attention to the internet. Now the WWW and the internet are considered one and the same, although the WWW is only a part of the overall internet.

Answer 5

no one is credited with "inventing" the internet

and certainly nobody discovered it (like columbus, somebody was tooling along and said "hey, look, its the internet, I've discovered the internet" -- no)

the internet developed over many years as various smaller computer networks were connected, and as various software protocols were employed and as various hardware capabilities were improved

no one person or group could be credited with inventing the internet

Answer 6

It grew out of a closed system that the military used to have

Answer 7

Al Gore.

Answer 8

tim berners lee or al gore

depending on who you are listening to