who found or discovered the internet?
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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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who invented computer
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Berners-Lee Answers !\n\n- Did you invent the Internet?\nNo, no, no!\n\nWhen I was doing the WWW, most of the bits I needed were already done.\n\nVint Cerf and people he worked with had figured out the Internet Protocol, and also the Transmission Control Protocol.\n\nPaul Mockapetris and friends had figured out the Domain Name System.\n\nPeople had already used TCP/IP and DNS to make email, and other cool things. So I could email other people who maybe would like to help work on making the WWW.\n\nI didn't invent the hypertext link either. The idea of jumping from one document to another had been thought about lots of people, including Vanevar Bush in 1945, and by Ted Nelson (who actually invented the word hypertext). Bush did it before computers really existed. Ted thought of a system but didn't use the internet. Doug Engelbart in the 1960's made a great system just like WWW except that it just ran on one [big] computer, as the internet hadn't been invented yet. Lots of hypertext systems had been made which just worked on one computer, and didn't link all the way across the world.\n\nI just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and -- ta-da! -- the World Wide Web.\n\n\n> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids\n\n> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee\n\nGood luck!
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Ray Thomlinson of BBN.\n\nHe created e-mail in 1971 as one of the first distributed applications to run on ARPANET, the origial precursor to the Internet.\n\nASIDE TO DEARDEB:\nI'm sure Mr. Gore appreciates you straightening that out for us all, since he never claimed to have invented anything.
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The Internet has its roots in a networking project started by the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. ARPA's goal was to build a net work that allowed scientists at different physical locations share information and work together on military and scientific projects and could function even if part of the network were disabled or destroyed by a disaster such as a nuclear attack. That network, called ARPANET, became functional in Sep. 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers across the United States. By 1984, ARPANET had more than 1000 individual computers linked as hosts. Today, more than 200 million hosts connect to the Internet.
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Bill Gates.\n\nNo question about it. Fully documented.
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Have you tried "A Brief History of the Internet"? Or used the wikipedia as a good start?
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Most probably internet.com
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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. \n\nZING!
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what has this to do with the Internet?
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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 invented the internet.  He said so.
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Try 'switchboard.com', or in any search engine, just put the person's name in parenthesis, and then click on search, that way you may just be amazed that you find your friend, but you may also find some other info posted about or by them on the net!
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Article on this:\nhttp://www.w3.org/Consortium/\nTimeline:\nhttp://www.w3.org/History.html\n\nYou asked, "What was the first website ever?" Well, that depends on your definition of "web site." It would be great if there was a nice clear-cut answer, but, like most inventions, the world wide web didn't just pop into existence all at once....It happened (and is still happening) in stages. A reasonable answer might be the site that Tim Berners-Lee put together at CERN for the development of the first Browser/Editor, called WorldWideWeb, in 1990. But people might say, no, that didn't have enough in it of what we would today call "web technology" to qualify. Others might say, no, there were earlier things that qualify like Vanevar Bush's " As We May Think" article in the July 1945 Atlantic Monthly.\n\nBut I'll stick with whatever test data Berners-Lee used in the development of the program called WorldWideWeb. Certainly by 1993, there were several sites at CERN that qualified by most people's definition.
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I think the scientists who made the greatest contribution of all time was Alexander Gram Bell even though he was not really scientists and more like a inventor. His invention the telephone is what now makes the world go round. The telephone lead to the internet, and being able to send mass amounts of information.
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I think the real milestone that changed the Internet was the world wide web.  Without it, Yahoo wouldn't exist.