2006-12-24 07:42:53 · 13 answers · asked by just_a_lil_bratty :P 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs:
Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961. Packet switching is the idea that packets of data can be "routed" from one place to another based on address information carried in the data, much like the address on a letter. Packet switching replaces the older concept of "circuit switching," in which an actual electrical circuit is established all the way from the source to the destination. Circuit switching was the idea behind traditional telephone exchanges.
2006-12-24 07:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by Dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the idea of packet switching, the idea behind sharing data from one computer to another, dates back to the early 60's and was used by the military. The Internet as we use it today was released in 1991. This is just an estimate, but I think it became popular (a household word) by mid-90's. At least that's when we got it.
2006-12-24 15:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Sarbanes Ox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard it was back in the fifties it was invented by the US military as a faster way of communicating to each other if the former USSR ever launched a nuke during the Cold War. Obviously, it was only commercialized for at least ten years now.
2006-12-24 15:51:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was in the 1960's, the U.S. Department of defence (DOD) undertook a major project and was authorized as a part of national security,the true motivations are not known with certainty,but most people close to the project believe it arose from the goverment's concerns about possible effects of nuclear attack on military computing facilities.......Hope this is enought, HAPPY HOLIDAYS....
2006-12-24 15:54:26 · answer #4 · answered by Shay. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask Al gore.He invented it.
2006-12-24 15:44:49 · answer #5 · answered by Sun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
February 1958.
Here is more information on the internet.
hoped that helped.
2006-12-24 15:45:58 · answer #6 · answered by finalkeyblade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some time in the 90's
2006-12-24 15:45:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1967 by some French guy who's name sounds like bernaise sauce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
2006-12-24 15:44:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one cave man hit the other one in the head with a caribou leg bone, he didn't know what to call it so he went on line....
2006-12-24 15:45:57 · answer #9 · answered by Mad Dog Johnson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was available to Amateur radio enthusiasts (HAMS), at least in the early 90's. We used amateur transceivers (radio) connected to our computers. Text only! It wasn't commercial either.
2006-12-24 15:59:04 · answer #10 · answered by John W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋