where did the internet really come from? can anyone give a me a website with credible facts about its history?

Question

I've been searching for sites about the internet's history and most of them say that the U.S. was behind it. but I've heard other stories telling that it actually came from switzerland. I'd like to know who came up with it and its developments. who coined the idea and what are the major milesones in the development in the internet.. I'd appreciate credible facts... thanks

Answer 1

It appears that the first person to put his ideas in action was
.......Joseph Carl Robnett "Lick" Licklider ........
I suppose he was the father of the invention although the idea sprang up before him. He was the first to put his plan in action.
Many people have made contributions along the way to make it what it is today.
.............History of the Internet...............
................. J.C.R Licklider........................
http://www.securenet.net/members/shartley/history/licklider.htm
J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis, 1960.
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_licklider.htm
Joseph Carl Robnett "Lick" Licklider developed the idea of a universal network, spread his vision throughout the IPTO, and inspired his successors to realize his dream by creation of the ARPANET, which then led to the Internet. He also developed the concepts that led to the idea of the Netizen.
..........Gateways or Bridges in the '50's.........
One prevalent computer networking method was based on the central mainframe method, simply allowing its terminals to be connected via long leased lines. This method was used in the 1950s by Project RAND to support researchers such as Herbert Simon, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when collaborating across the continent with researchers in Santa Monica, California, on automated theorem proving and artificial intelligence. The Internet system was developed and ready in the Late 1980s, but The Cold War held up the progress. When it ended in 1992,
One prevalent computer networking method was based on the central mainframe method, simply allowing its terminals to be connected via long leased lines. This method was used in the 1950s by Project RAND to support researchers such as Herbert Simon, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when collaborating across the continent with researchers in Santa Monica, California, on automated theorem proving and artificial intelligence. The Internet system was developed and ready in the Late 1980s, but The Cold War held up the progress. When it ended in 1992,
..................Origins of the Internet..................
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, 4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.
..................Tim Berners-Lee......................
.................Inventor of WWW.......................
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
In 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

Answer 2

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

Try that out, it's known that wikipedia is excellent for supplying information like this.

Answer 3

Hope this helps! Just click on the website, please.