Bruno From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 853 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 757 times:
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Bruno From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 853 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 747 times:
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Blink182 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 5359 posts, RR: 22 Reply 8, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 714 times:
Al Gore.
Seriously, I read somewhere a few years ago that it was originally used by the US Army/Navy/Military in the 1960s and then only in the 90s did it start to go public.
I am not sure which US Defense system used it, I know it was not all three of them.
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Give me a break, I created this username when I was a kid...
777236ER From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 12959 posts, RR: 55 Reply 11, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 691 times:
Depends what you mean by "the Internet". HTML was invented by a British engineer trying to link different OSs at a conference somewhere in Europe once.
Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20144 posts, RR: 57 Reply 12, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 680 times:
The Internet (the transport network architecture) developed out of the US DOD´s ARPANET.
The Web (based on the HTTP protocol, using the HTML data format), which uses the Internet for transport (as do FTP, Telnet and many other protocols), was developed at CERN.
Before the advent of the Web, the Internet was mostly used with text- or X-terminals instead of Web browsers; But it did exist even then.
Rwy31R From Saudi Arabia, joined Aug 2001, 451 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 670 times:
So it seems that Al Gore really was telling the truth all along his presidantial campign.. "America, I gave you the internet, and I can't takw it away"!
CPDC10-30 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2000, 4744 posts, RR: 31 Reply 17, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 629 times:
Actually, there was quite a lot of life on the internet before the Web. I started browsing newsgroups and ftp sites in 1991 and was amazed at the amount of content even at that time.
Tbar220 From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7011 posts, RR: 34 Reply 18, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 627 times:
Wait, wasn't the internet invented back in 1867?!? I've gotten chain mails in my email saying that the email has been going around since 1867! Also, they say if I don't keep it going, my love life will go to hell. Amazing, they seem to be right...
G-KIRAN From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2000, 736 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 624 times:
The internet was around in the US in the 1960's.The whole idea of web pages,http and html came from British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee who was working at CERN.Those of you who have the Time 100 scientists and thinkers special edition magaxine will find him in there.
Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 24 Reply 20, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 619 times:
Al Gore says he invented the internet. Now, we all know Al Gore is an extremely trustworthy (cough, cough) person. Would he lie to you?
The internet was not invented by a single person. Tim Berners-Lee created HTTP and invented HTML, DARPA (now ARPA) came up with the idea to link computers remotely and use a system-independent communications protocol (which became TCP/IP). Others again invented SMTP, POP, IRC, NNTP, and all the other protocols and standards.
Al Gore might even have been part of one of the organisations (probably as the janitor) involved.
PerthGloryFan From Australia, joined Oct 2000, 751 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 597 times:
Operationally the first "internetwork" of universities, UCLA, SRI, UC Santa Barbara and Utah, under the auspices of the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon staggered into being at the end of 1969.
The World Wide Web is just a flashy feature that was added on some 20 years later.
The best technical history has to be "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet" by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon published by Touchstone in 1996.
Should be compulsory reading for internet users, check out your local library or bookstore.
Ukair From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 278 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 571 times:
Oops sorry Tim. As G-KIRAN says above the name I was looking for was Tim Berners Lee, a British computer programmer working in America. Here's a link for anyone who is interested to know more about the history of the Web.
Swissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5246 posts, RR: 42 Reply 24, posted (10 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 569 times:
CERN, isen't this this Swiss Organisation near Geneva-Cointrin Apt?
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25 Ukair: Here is the link with the mans name on it.... http://www.3history.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html
26 TWAL1011: Just to clarify, Al Gore claimed to be The Father of the Internet. Either way, he was full of shit in his statement.
27 PerthGloryFan: The "popular press" attributes VP Gore as enhancing the English language by inventing the phrase "the information highway" which was translated into p
28 Cfalk: Al Gore looked like the biggest con artist since Jimmy Swaggart and Jimmy Baker when he made that comment. The Internet originally was an effort by th
29 PerthGloryFan: The Internet originally was an effort by the US Defence Department to create an indestructable electronic communication and storage system Actually Ch
30 Airways: The Web (WWW) was actualy invented by Tim Berners at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland. You can find more i
31 Cfalk: PGF, Hmmm... So was the ruggedness of the system intentional or an accident. I suppose those who believe that the government is incapable of doing som
32 Joona: And the IRC was a Finnish invention. What good is there in the net, except IRC ;D
33 PerthGloryFan: Charles, It was certainly intentional that the Internet be a robust system that's why the packet switching system of digital data communications was i
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