who created the internet and when?

Question

this quesionb is very simple ut when i looked it up on yahoo there were many answers such as al gore, the militry, bill gates,etc.!! i wondered if someone can tell me traight up and plz dont copy wikipedia i checked there and its not very simple..it has so many unnecsary facts alll i need is a name or the us military or maybe even a llittle specific like the department of defense or soemthing! PLZ AND THANK U!

Answer 1

Maybe there is no simple asnwer to your question...

Answer 2

Well, it wasn't Al Gore. The beginnings of the Internet as we know it began with the military and MIT, where Joseph Licklider first envisioned a worldwide network. Actual implementation of such a thing came in the late 1980s, when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau developed a system that would come to called the World Wide Web. The WWW first went "live" on 6 August 1991.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, although the question is simple and straightforward, the answer is not. Gore did provide early support for the technology -- even if he puffed up his role -- but computer pioneers can't even agree on exactly what the Internet is, let alone who created it.

Most historical accounts say the Internet was created in 1969, when the first network of widely separated computers was set up by the Defence Department to aid in computer research. It was called the ARPANET, and it was created by scientists at Bolt Beranek & Newman, or BB&N, in Cambridge, Mass., and at Stanford University, based on concepts described earlier by Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists J.C.R. Licklider and Leonard Kleinrock (and a few others).

Answer 4

The Internet grew out of "arpnet" which was a DARPA communications protocol used for sharing critical information between research facilities and the military.

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And no, it was *NOT* Al Gore. He was a senator that sponsored some legislation that helped the Internet move from it's research community niche to the large publicly available entity it is today. He stuck his rather large foot in his mouth during his presidential campaign by trying to bill his involvement with that legislation as "inventing" the Internet.

Answer 5

DARPA, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency of the United States Government, in the 1960s

Answer 6

No single person or organization created the modern Internet, including Al Gore, Lyndon Johnson, or any other individual. Instead, multiple people developed the key technologies that later grew to become the Internet:

Answer 7

It originated as a government network of computers. The government needed an easy way tocommunicate between departments. This extended into businesses and eventually the Internet came into being. A lot of networks connected by routers. The Interent just evolved into what it is today.

Answer 8

I always thought it was Bill Gates? but I can access Encarta and it is factual and come back with the answer.
I found it on Encarta, you really made me search.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen made the personal computer.

However, it was Timothy Berner-Lee a British computer scientist during the 1980's that first created the internet.
Never dreamed it wasn't an American. Never heard of the guy. Maybe you may have helped me to pass a test.

Answer 9

IT WAS NOT THE GOVERNMENT! It was actually a California school and they only did it so they could sent paper work and other information to other school that would take to long to deliver over mail. they used the phone and sent beeps that stood for ones and zeros. The government then found out and started using it and called it ARPANET. It always get the credit when it really should not.

Answer 10

In the movie "TRON", the evil OS brags "no single person created me". Like the space race, the modern internet is the result of lots of work from lots of people. My brother wired up a dormitory Local Area Network. Some people just paid their taxes. Apparently Gore helped steer research and funnel money.

Answer 11

Al Gore 1972