The Internet was made by...

[sidhe3141]

"Why do you think the Net was born?"
-- Q Avenue

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Seriously, it was a US military invention later implemented worldwide.

 

[mooncalf]

*EDIT*
The internet was made by everyone involved, a more specific question is required for a more specific answer.

 

[runtheplacered]

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.

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.

 

[axia777]

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.

Did you see my former post? Read it and click on the links.

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.

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.

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.

 

[Jamash]

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.

 

[zirnitra]

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.

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 company

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.

PS CERN is an organisation funded by 20 European country's so you could also say that Europe invented the internet. it's not a private corporation. and it's based in Switzerland

 

[requiem408]

Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.

*Gasp!* I are not an idjet. I ams intelligent to higherest good. (Watch me get reported for bad grammar )

 

[Hey Joe]

I heard the US army invented the internet back in the 50s/60s in case of a nuclear strike. That way if communications were cut off, they had another means of talking to eachother and coordinating counter-attacks.

Either that or Al Gore invented it.

 

[axia777]

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.

What the hell are you talking about? The following long quote if from Wikipedia on the creation of ARPANET.

Background 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/ARPANET

Also, on the creation of the WWW which is NOT the Internet.

The 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]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

 

[axia777]

I believe the WWW was made by a group of scientists and it was used to make it easier for them to transmit data.

Does nobody read past posts in a thread or do they all just post with out reading?

 

[Jamash]

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.

What the hell are you talking about? The following long quote if from Wikipedia on the creation of ARPANET.

snip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

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.

Really, named after some called Internet?

 

[Trivun]

The actual dawn of the internet was definitely from CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. It was designed originally as a secure way of transmitting data and information and of communication between different labs and research projects/teams in the CERN facility. And before anyone argues, this is definite indisputable FACT because I have done my research, had a look at different accounts and various statements and accounts from different people, some affiliated with CERN and some affiliated with other research groups and countires, and this is definite. As for who was responsible for the public release of the internet, I don't know, and I doubt anyone save for that person does know, so don't ask me. However, the basic origins of the internet are true and I happen to know this to be fact, before anyone tries to tell us all otherwise.

 

[b100draven]

the way i know it was that Tim Berners-Lee made the internet to send data round the facility at CERN but this was merely a local LAN it took the American nuclear defence force to use it country wide to link all the bases together incase of attack CERN was also the one to make the WWW as we know it today but of course remember none of the world wide web would exist with out the porn industry

 

[Skalman]

Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.

QFT

Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.

...Present company excluded, I hope?

Of course...

EDIT: I hope this didn't come off as too offensive...

 

[Dance The Revolution]

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?

I don't know the answer to that, but I can tell you that USA did infact create the Internet, at least.

 

[Bachanomon92]

Americans claim creation of everything. It's best just to ignore them since they are mostly idiots anyway.

Agreed.

 

[Dance The Revolution]

Sorry for double-posting, but....

Does nobody actually read the thread before posting? It was stated several times already with (Wikipedia) sources that the USA created the Internet and the Web created by an Englishman.

 

[WolfThomas]

Lesbian cyber communist emo hackers made it!