who invented the internet?

Answer 1

Even though wikipedia can be edited by anyone there is a good article on the internet history there that has legit information on the internet and its beginnings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

HTH

Answer 2

The Internet is not the World Wide Web. They are different.

Tim Berners Lee only invented the WWW which is an application that runs over the internet. The Internet already existing and was being used for Usenet (1979), email (1969), and FTP (1985), years before the WWW was invented in 1990.

As other answers state, the Internet which is the network infrastructure (computers, routers, DNS, TCPIP) was created by the US government and began life as ARPANET a computer network designed to be fault tollerant in the event of a nuclear strike. The routing nature of IP meant that traffic could reroute around a broken node (Not sure they really though about all the EM radiation which would render most electronics useless)

Answer 3

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.

J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network."
Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. If any two people "invented the Internet," it was Kahn and Cerf - but they have publicly stated that "no one person or group of people" invented the Internet.

Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks like the Internet would be impractical.

By 1983, TCP was the standard and ARPANET began to resemble the modern Internet in many respects. The ARPANET itself was taken out of commission in 1990. Most restrictions on commercial Internet traffic ended in 1991, with the last limitations removed in 1995. For a much more complete history of the Internet, see the web site of the Internet Society.

Answer 4

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.
J.C.R. LICKLIDER was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network."
LARRY G. ROBERTS created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.
BOB KAHN and VINT CERF invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. If any two people "invented the Internet," it was KAHN and CERF - but they have publicly stated that "no one person or group of people" invented the Internet.
RADIA PERLMAN invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks like the Internet would be impractical.

Answer 5

The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.

The first TCP/IP-wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.) It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, BITNET and the various commercial and educational networks, such as X.25, Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet) was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dial-up access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation since the 1970s. This network eventually merged with the others in the 1990s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks, especially the international X.25 IPSS network, allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.

Answer 6

The Internet was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities. It was originally called ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). The concept was developed starting in 1964, and the first messages passed were between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT had published the first paper on packet switching theory in 1961. Since networking computers was new to begin with, standards were being developed on the fly. Once the concept was proven, the organizations involved started to lay out some ground rules for standardization. One of the most important was the communications protocol, TCP/IP, developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1974. In the 1980's, the Internet started getting released for commercial use.

Answer 7

The internet actually is the prodigy student of many interesting experiments through the use in the military and the university systems. They wanted an easy way to get information over long distances so they developed several forms and networks to do this. The internet just happened to be developed and commercialized in the process.

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Answer 8

An Englishman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bernes_Lee

Answer 9

In 1973, the U.S Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate tecniques and technologies for interlinking packet network of various kinds. The objective was to develop communication protocols, which would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks. This was called the internetting project and the system of networks, which emerged from the reaseach, was known as the 'internet'.

Answer 10

Tim Bernes Lee