Who invented the internet?

Question

Is there any one person who is considered to have invented the internet? And don't say Al Gore...

Answer 1

algore..........and why should we "not say it"? He said it himself.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

The internet was originally used as communication within the government. That is why Al Gore stated that he invented it. He probably had something to do with the use of it in government.

Answer 4

Not really -- certainly there were important players who contributed a great deal to it's developement but no single individual ( not even Gore ) can take credit for creating it. One group had a need for a network and they developed it to suit them. Another group had a similar need and they tied in expanding the use and scope of the others network and so on and so on until today. The year 1990 marks the year of the global expansion and universal use of the net.

Answer 5

I heard that it was invented by some physicists in collaboration with computer geeks at the Oak Ridge National laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. They wanted a way that they could share their scientific data quickly to the various other national laboratories such as Los Alamos, NM, Livermore in CA, etc, etc. Then people started posting lots of other stuff on the websites, and then someone figured out how to add a primitive form of email, and it just took off, growing like a snowball, I was told.

Answer 6

Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark,
Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch,
Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff invented the internet.

Answer 7

The following article says that Vint Cerf is commonly referred to as "the father of the internet" and AL Gore never actually made the statement that he was the "inventor" of the internet.

Answer 8

Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is a North American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses.

He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), which is intended to both promote the views of ordinary users of the Internet, and also serve as an umbrella body for the technical groups developing the Internet (such as the Internet Engineering Task Force). He served as the first president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995, served on the board of trustees through the end of 2001, and served as chairman of the board from 1998 to 1999.

He has a hearing impairment, and serves on the board of Gallaudet University, the first school of higher learning for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; he received an award from the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. He and his family currently reside in Virginia.

Answer 9

Al Gore

Honestly - UCLA professors hold claims to inventing aspects of it back in the 70s.

Answer 10

Al Gore claims he did. But, he didn't. It was around long before he was VP.

Answer 11

Bill Clinton