He did not say he invented the internet. I'm really surprised that after all these years, people still think he said that. What he said was that he helped to pass legislation that initiated the implementation of the internet in America. He did indeed poorly choose his words, you could argue, but that was all he meant.Eldritch Warlord said:Well, in this case it's because Al Gore said he did. Almost no one believes him but they don't care enough to find an alternative inventor.
Did you see my former post? Read it and click on the links.MSORPG pl4y3r said:I'm never sure why Americans either lay claims to great ideas or inventions (or wether ppl just asume they did) but it gets a bit anoying to me, the English did that to the scotts alot too and I'd hoped if ppl are genuinly curios about stuff like that they should fine out themselves rather than just asume americans did it.
This completely true. People who say that Al Gore said he invented the Internet are either trying to be funny(Epic Fail) or just plain morons.runtheplacered said:He did not say he invented the internet. I'm really surprised that after all these years, people still think he said that. What he said was that he helped to pass legislation that initiated the implementation of the internet in America. He did indeed poorly choose his words, you could argue, but that was all he meant.Eldritch Warlord said:Well, in this case it's because Al Gore said he did. Almost no one believes him but they don't care enough to find an alternative inventor.
Tim Berners-Lee did it all he's credited with the invention therefore the WWW is a British invention. done. who invented the internet however is a lot more complicated.Renamedsin said:maybe he works for them? for I know for a fact that they won a Nobelsprize for the invention, and CERN is not working for Belgium, they are just placed there, they are an international companyRezfon said:Er no and yes. The internet was brought about from different countries contributions. If anyone I'd probably say Tim Berners-Lee made the internet.
*Gasp!* I are not an idjet. I ams intelligent to higherest good. (Watch me get reported for bad grammar )jasoncyrus said:Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.
What the hell are you talking about? The following long quote if from Wikipedia on the creation of ARPANET.Jamash said:It first was discovered in 1968 by Dr Jan Hynek Internet, a defected Czech scientist working for the Americans at the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Dr internet happened upon his discovery while researching into ways of bolstering civilian telephone cables against the effects EMP fields, in the event of a nuclear attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANETBackground of ARPANET
For more details on this topic, see History of the Internet.
The earliest ideas of a computer network intended to allow general communication between users of various computers were formulated by J.C.R. Licklider of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in August 1962, in a series of memos discussing his "Intergalactic Computer Network" concept. These ideas contained almost everything that the Internet is today.
In October 1963, Licklider was appointed head of the Behavioral Sciences and Command and Control programs at ARPA (as it was then called), the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He then convinced Ivan Sutherland and Bob Taylor that this was a very important concept, although he left ARPA before any actual work on his vision was performed.
ARPA and Taylor continued to be interested in creating a computer communication network, in part to allow ARPA-sponsored researchers in various locations to use various computers which ARPA was providing, and in part to make new software and other results widely available quickly. Taylor had three different terminals in his office, connected to three different computers which ARPA was funding: one for the SDC Q-32 in Santa Monica, one for Project Genie at the University of California, Berkeley, and one for Multics at MIT. Taylor later recalled:
"For each of these three terminals, I had three different sets of user commands. So if I was talking online with someone at S.D.C. and I wanted to talk to someone I knew at Berkeley or M.I.T. about this, I had to get up from the S.D.C. terminal, go over and log into the other terminal and get in touch with them. I said, oh, man, it's obvious what to do: If you have these three terminals, there ought to be one terminal that goes anywhere you want to go. That idea is the ARPANET."[2]
Somewhat contemporaneously, a number of people had (mostly independently) worked out various aspects of what later became known as "packet switching"; the people who created the ARPANET would eventually draw on all these different sources.
[edit] Creation of ARPANET
By mid-1968, a complete plan had been prepared, and after approval at ARPA, a Request For Quotation (RFQ) was sent to 140 potential bidders. Most regarded the proposal as outlandish, and only 12 companies submitted bids, of which only four were regarded as in the top rank. By the end of the year, the field had been narrowed to two, and after negotiations, a final choice was made, and the contract was awarded to BBN on 7 April 1969.
BBN's proposal followed Taylor's plan closely; it called for the network to be composed of small computers known as Interface Message Processors (more commonly known as IMPs), what are now called routers. The IMPs at each site performed store-and-forward packet switching functions, and were connected to each other using modems connected to leased lines (initially running at 50 kbit/second). Host computers connected to the IMPs via custom bit-serial interfaces to connect to ARPANET.
BBN initially chose a ruggedized version of Honeywell's DDP-516 computer[3] to build the first-generation IMP. The 516 was originally configured with 24 kB of core memory (expandable) and a 16 channel Direct Multiplex Control (DMC) direct memory access control unit. Custom interfaces were used to connect, via the DMC, to each of the hosts and modems. In addition to the lamps on the front panel of the 516 there was also a special set of 24 indicator lights to show the status of the IMP communication channels. Each IMP could support up to four local hosts and could communicate with up to six remote IMPs over leased lines.
The small team at BBN (initially only seven people), helped considerably by the detail they had gone into to produce their response to the RFQ, quickly produced the first working units. The entire system, including both hardware and the world's first packet switching software, was designed and installed in nine months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_WebThe World Wide Web (commonly abbreviated as "the Web") is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, he proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network,[1] and released that web in 1992. Connected by the existing Internet, other websites were created, around the world, adding international standards for domain names & the HTML language. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet, [2] to the extent that the World Wide Web has become a synonym for Internet, with the two being conflated in popular use. [3]
Does nobody read past posts in a thread or do they all just post with out reading?sv93 said:I believe the WWW was made by a group of scientists and it was used to make it easier for them to transmit data.
Sorry, when I made up a name like Dr Jan Internet I didn't realise I also had to specify it was a joke, I though that would be apparent.axia777 said:What the hell are you talking about? The following long quote if from Wikipedia on the creation of ARPANET.Jamash said:It first was discovered in 1968 by Dr Jan Hynek Internet, a defected Czech scientist working for the Americans at the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Dr internet happened upon his discovery while researching into ways of bolstering civilian telephone cables against the effects EMP fields, in the event of a nuclear attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANETsnip
QFTjasoncyrus said:Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.
Of course...orannis62 said:...Present company excluded, I hope?jasoncyrus said:Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.
I don't know the answer to that, but I can tell you that USA did infact create the Internet, at least.Renamedsin said:so my question is really simple, why is it that everytime somthing grand, like or beloved internet is born, most people presume its made in the US?
Agreed.jasoncyrus said:Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.