Where did the internet come from? Who invented it?
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The internet started with a concept of operations that did not require any single line to remain open. The idea was something like a "web", so that if any node, or even several nodes were disconnected, information could still be passed from one place to another relatively quickly. One of the first theoretical applications of this is in the USA was intended as a way for the government to continue to operate during a nuclear war with the USSR. Over time, this became more popular with a commercially based crowd and eventually the world-wide web emerged as a standard.
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We shouldn't confuse "Internet" with "World Wide Web". A project of a far-reaching network of computers that was probably started in the late 60's/early 70's by the Department of Defense could be construed to be the dawning of the Internet. However, the "World Wide Web" was started around 1990 by C.E.R.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. It was used as a global network between scientist to trade ideas and research results.
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The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. Kleinrock's packet switching theory was confirmed. Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet.\nThe Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). The contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969. By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were added. By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added. In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.\n\nThe Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.\n\nThe early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.
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The internet was originally created for the US government as a wayof communication during wartime. There were two servers MAE east MAE west all of which military communication went through. Today those same servers still are there ( little upgraded :)\n\nThe government project failed and they handed it over to the universities. Hence, the public internet born...
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it isn't international, but it is from the same root. originally there were a lot of separate computer networks, the internet was designed to tie them together. Thus "internet" means "across networks" like international means "across nations"
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the first computer was made by an english man called charles babbage in the 1800s. it was like a calculater and was the size of a house. \nt
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since the internet only began just over a decade ago (the first web page is about fifteen i think, the internet has grown a lot.\nif you google ' history of ther internet' or go onto wikipedia you will get a basic idea of the numbers involved.  once the preserve of the dedicated few, most western countries are over 50% saturation for some kind of internet service
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Google. They invented it.
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John Henry Google.  He and Al Gore invented the internet and then he went on to invent search engines and toasters.
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Al Gore once gave some horse-hockey answer about how since he sponsored some bill enabling some technologies, he could claim to be "Father of the Internet".  Basically, the media ran with that.\n\nOh, and quoting Al Franken is about as lame as one can get.
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Exactly how is this related to the Internet?
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God invented the internet, so the first site was www.bible.com.  If that doesn't work, try www.load_of_crap.com.  They're basically the same thing.
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*************************************************************\n\nComputer engineer, Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email in late 1971. Under ARPAnet several major innovations occurred: email (or electronic mail), the ability to send simple messages to another person across the network (1971). Ray Tomlinson worked as a computer engineer for Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the company hired by the United States Defense Department to build the first Internet in 1968.\n\nRay Tomlinson was experimenting with a popular program he wrote called SNDMSG that the ARPANET programmers and researchers were using on the network computers (Digital PDP-10s) to leave messages for each other. SNDMSG was a "local" electronic message program. You could only leave messages on the computer that you were using for other persons using that computer to read. Tomlinson used a file transfer protocol that he was working on called CYPNET to adapt the SNDMSG program so it could send electronic messages to any computer on the ARPANET network.\n\nRay Tomlinson chose the @ symbol to tell which user was "at" what computer. The @ goes inbetween the user's login name and the name of his/her host computer.\n\nThe first email was sent between two computers that were actually sitting besides each other. However, the ARPANET network was used as the connection between the two. The first email message was "QWERTYUIOP".\n\nTim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, defining HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators).\n\n***********************************************************
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If you are referring to Webpages and anything to do with the HTTP protocol (collectively known as the World Wide Web), this was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland, and not America as confused by many.\n\nWhat American  did invent though, was the foundations on which the WWW was created upon. This was called DARPA, and was built to survive nuclear attacks after Russia launched Sputnik and caused fear among the government. See the 2nd link for more detailed information. \n\nSo in essence the american government invented the internet,\nTim Berners-Lee made it possible for people like you and me to use it with web browsers and what not.
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The internet is not a place, or even a thing that's located in a place.  It's not even a place, in the tangible sense.  It's just something that is.  "The internet" simply refers to the union of all the different servers out there where all the information for all the different websites you go to is stored.
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The United States Military started the Internet in the 1960's, it was called ARPANET. It was used as a computer network for thousands of government employees around the world to communicate. Science and Technology researchers were the first non-military users of the internet. In the early 1990's the government changed polices that restricted private and business uses of the Internet. By 1992 dozens of new companies offered direct internet acsess to individuals. \n\nSo, the Internet wasn't really properly introduced.
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who invented computer