Who invented the internet?

vmail · 10-03-2003, 08:34 AM

**Pseudocyber** · 10-03-2003, 08:44 AM

The US Defense Department - Advanced Research Project Agency.

DARPA.

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Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving data as necessary on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job. Kleinrock's conviction of the need for packet switching was confirmed.

In late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", publishing it in 1967. At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL. Scantlebury told Roberts about the NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others at RAND. The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964. It happened that the work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work. The word "packet" was adopted from the work at NPL and the proposed line speed to be used in the ARPANET design was upgraded from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps. 5

In August 1968, after Roberts and the DARPA funded community had refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET, an RFQ was released by DARPA for the development of one of the key components, the packet switches called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). The RFQ was won in December 1968 by a group headed by Frank Heart at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). As the BBN team worked on the IMP's with Bob Kahn playing a major role in the overall ARPANET architectural design, the network topology and economics were designed and optimized by Roberts working with Howard Frank and his team at Network Analysis Corporation, and the network measurement system was prepared by Kleinrock's team at UCLA. 6

Read more: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

vmail · 10-03-2003, 08:50 AM

yeah but is there a simple answer?

geek training · 10-03-2003, 09:44 AM

Al Gore said he did.

**Fox** · 10-03-2003, 10:22 AM

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?

geek training: As soon as I buy a DeLorean, I'm going to put a bumper sticker on it that says "Why put off today what you can do yesterday?"

**shawnbowski** · 10-04-2003, 02:49 PM

I invented the internet back in 1903

vmail · 10-04-2003, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by shawnbowski
I invented the internet back in 1903

not the 60's, and you have proof?

vmail · 10-04-2003, 06:09 PM

Thats the 1st computer was in June 21st 1948 called SSEM, here
in Manchester.

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slam · 10-05-2003, 09:20 AM

according to Elizabeth Castro the creator of the WEB is Tim Berners-Lee.

you can contact her on http://www.cookwood.com

gr

**Pseudocyber** · 10-06-2003, 05:50 AM

The "web" and the Internet are two different things. There's a lot more to the internet than WWW.

Your simple answer is the US DoD.

vmail · 10-06-2003, 10:36 AM

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Lets try and keep it clean now.

I did replace the L's with 1's (and the I)

vmail · 10-06-2003, 10:37 AM

Ok i'll look up US DoD

x5dr · 10-11-2003, 02:21 AM

Al Gore is the one that promoted it in the House so in a way he is the one responsible for what it is today...just like he is the one responsible for the clear TV signals you receive now and HDTV programing. I remember when people criticized him for that too...they thought they were going to have to run out and buy a new TV.

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x5dr Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 336 OS: XP PRO	Al Gore is the one that promoted it in the House so in a way he is the one responsible for what it is today...just like he is the one responsible for the clear TV signals you receive now and HDTV programing. I remember when people criticized him for that too...they thought they were going to have to run out and buy a new TV.