The Internet was made by...
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The internet was invented by the military. They needed some way to get messages from point A to B and it needed to be more reliable and easier to use than radio.
Here, I found it on Wikipedia in the sources section.Darkside360 said:
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html
In other words, Internet creators = America.
The Internet was made by the US goverment back durign the cold war. They wanted all their silos linked together so they could all be fired from one place.
I'm going to quote something written by Yahtzee, where he complains about Americans claiming to have invented a lot of things actually invented in Britain. Not strictly relevant, but fun to read:
1. Hamburgers
Yum! Take the concept of a beef sandwich, make it round, add one bucket of grease, and you have the quintessential American delicacy! 'Course it was us who originally invented the sandwich but all kudos to you for modifying the concept into something slightly more marketable! You know what's so great about junk food? Fat people who eat too much die young from cholesterol poisoning! It's a problem that solves itself!
3. Television
Oh wait, this was ours. Well, you watch a lot of television, don't you! Probably why you're all so fat!
5. The Internet
... sorry, this was our idea too. Still, all credit to you for taking the idea and masterminding the creation of an indispensible tool for sexual deviants. Next!
9. Jet engine
Damn. Us again. Sorry, I keep forgetting who invented what. You know, some people might accuse me of not wanting to pay tribute to America at all, but instead trying to sling badly-disguised insults at them while promoting my own country. To these people I say, "Oh, go shoot some road signs, fat Yankee! You're fatter than Fatty McFat from Fatland on Fat People Get In Free Day!"
1. Hamburgers
Yum! Take the concept of a beef sandwich, make it round, add one bucket of grease, and you have the quintessential American delicacy! 'Course it was us who originally invented the sandwich but all kudos to you for modifying the concept into something slightly more marketable! You know what's so great about junk food? Fat people who eat too much die young from cholesterol poisoning! It's a problem that solves itself!
3. Television
Oh wait, this was ours. Well, you watch a lot of television, don't you! Probably why you're all so fat!
5. The Internet
... sorry, this was our idea too. Still, all credit to you for taking the idea and masterminding the creation of an indispensible tool for sexual deviants. Next!
9. Jet engine
Damn. Us again. Sorry, I keep forgetting who invented what. You know, some people might accuse me of not wanting to pay tribute to America at all, but instead trying to sling badly-disguised insults at them while promoting my own country. To these people I say, "Oh, go shoot some road signs, fat Yankee! You're fatter than Fatty McFat from Fatland on Fat People Get In Free Day!"
Generally speaking, people who say this don't really understand much of anything about how sources work, or how Wikipedia works.Darkside360 said:
Except he's absolutely wrong about this. The internet was not made by a brit, the world wide web was. There is a difference.Clashero said:
You're all educated stupid!
Chuck Norris made the Internet come into existence by sheer force of will in 1986, when he got tired of always walking down to the triple-X video rental shop.
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Chuck Norris made the Internet come into existence by sheer force of will in 1986, when he got tired of always walking down to the triple-X video rental shop.
trufax
From what I know: The internet was basically a computerized version of phone conversations for the Army. But needless to say, there are probably a quadruple digit amount of stories.
Basically: The internet wasn't, then it was. It's kind of just a concept now. A concept, and a series of tubes of course.
Basically: The internet wasn't, then it was. It's kind of just a concept now. A concept, and a series of tubes of course.
How incredibly clever you must be, to create a Chuck Norris joke in a thread that is completely irrelevant.Grimrider6 said:
You just make me giggle and feel warm inside because of your astounding comic genius.
Let the Chuck Norris jokes die, for Christ's sake, they stopped being funny after the first five.
But anyway, I don't know why I should care so much about how the internet was made, but I also think it was Tim Berners-Lee.
Chuck Norris jokes were funny for about 2 weeks when they first appeared. They are no longer funny. Please stop making them.Grimrider6 said:
This is slightly off-topic, but I'll bring it up anyway: Why so much hate for the US?
I still prefer the creation according to Encyclopedia Dramatica in which it was created to transfer porn between various installations. Seems spot on.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Internet
Yeah, yeah. It's ED, you know it's going to be offensive and contain odd material. View at your own consent.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Internet
Yeah, yeah. It's ED, you know it's going to be offensive and contain odd material. View at your own consent.
Sorry for being thick on that. I missed it.... *lame*Jamash said:
It is now these days. If colleges accept it as a source of researched information that pretty makes it official.Darkside360 said:
No, you try again. You obviously have no idea of what you speak of. Wikipedia is now one of the best sources of information on the Internet, period. It is edited regularly by many of the very experts of the fields that it has entries on. It is not just idiots doing the editing you know. They are real scholars. If one of then gets something wrong. another scholar edits that to make the correction. Oh, and most schooled USED to hate it, but now they realize that it is a great source.Darkside360 said:
You act like there are no fat people in England. Well, there sure was quite a lot of them when I was there. Stop insulting America. Who gives a rats ass about all that other shit you mentioned you stupid stuck up Brit. I know not all Brits are idiots like you, but you sure do give them a bad name.Clashero said:
Just to clue you in the Internet and World Wide Web are different things. The Internet is the hardware and the packet switching protocols that run it. The WWW is the HTML protocols that runs the web pages. America invented the former while Europe, not just England, invented the latter. So STFU.
Really? That's troubling. Colleges shouldn't be accepting ANY encyclopedias as a valid source of information. The info should come from primary and secondary sources.axia777 said:
I agree, for one reason or another inventors seem to get mixed up or given no credit at all. People believe Thomas Edison had invented the light bulb, Joseph Swan did, Thomas Edison just domesticated it. There's this misconception that he invented electricity as well, when he Nikola Tesla did. Thomas Edison just sent his lackies to destroy heaps of Tesla's stuff.Ken Korda said:
Man Edison was an asshole.
Edit: Chuck Norris actually created the net, he needed a place to store his porn.
i hear that the internet was made by the united state armed forces so if there was ever an attack, they could still stay in contact... or at least look at porn.
