Which Country Invented The Internet

[letmein]

Anyone know?

[Novo]

England

[Shaun]

the WWW was conceived by a British bloke, but created by the US, I think.

[Novo]

Tim Berners-Lee

[arista]

Anyone know?


I know One Sure Thing,
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You are a Lazy Poster.



Can a Good Mod move this to General Chat.

[Omah]

When we talk about the Internet, we talk about the World Wide Web from the past four or five years. But, its history goes back a lot further; all the way back to the 1950s and 60s.

So, just in case you missed the development of the Internet, here is a brief timeline highlighting some of the major occurrences over the past 49 years that have shaped the Internet of today

http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

1958 . President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.
1961 . Len Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, writes first paper on packet switching, "Information Flow in Large Communications Nets." Paper published in RLE Quarterly Progress Report.
1962 •J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept, "On-Line Man Computer Communications."
• Len Kleinrock writes Communication Nets, which describes design for packet switching network; used for ARPAnet
1964 . Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks," first paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized networktopology(Nodes and Links)
Oct. 1965 . First Network Experiment: Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology.
Dec. 1966 . ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is chief scientist.
Dec. 1968 . ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Mass.
Sept. 1, 1969 . First ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center. Kleinrock hooked up the Interface Message Processor to a Sigma 7 Computer.
Oct. 1, 1969 . Second node installed at Stanford Research Institute; connected to a SDS 940 computer. The first ARPANet message sent: "lo." Trying to spell log-in, but the system crashed!
Nov. 1, 1969 . Third node installed at University of California, Santa Barbara. Connected to an IBM 360/75.
Dec. 1, 1969 . Fourth node installed at University of Utah. Connected to a DEC PDP-10.
March 1970 . Fifth node installed at BBN, across the country in Cambridge, Mass.
July 1970 . Alohanet, first packet radio network, operational at University of Hawaii.
March 1972 . First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning.
March 1973 . First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway).
1974 . Intelreleases the 8080 processor.
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection," which details the design of TCP.
1976 . Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
• Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail.
. Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager.
1978 . TCP split into TCP and IP.
1979 . Bob Metcalfe and others found 3Com (Computer Communication Compatibility).
1980 . Tim Berners-Lee writes program called "Enquire Within," predecessor to the World Wide Web.
1981 . IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
1983 . Cisco Systems founded.
Nov. 1983 . Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.
1984 • William Gibson writes "Neuromancer." Coins the term "cyberspace".
• Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh on January 24th.
March 15, 1985 . Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain.
1986 . 5000 hosts on ARPAnet/Internet.
1987 • 10,000 hosts on the Internet.
• First Cisco routershipped.
• 25 million PCs sold in US.
1989 • 100,000 hosts on Internet.
• McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free. Quantum becomes America Online.
1990 . ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web.
1992 "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.

[MTVN]

The internet was created by the Americans, the World Wide Web was invented by the British I think

[ILoveTRW]

Aliens

[lostalex]

The internet was invented by the US Army.

The WWW was created by a british man.

The WWW would not exist without the internet, the internet would still exist without the WWW.

It is an American invention.

[James]

The Internet has been around since the late-sixties. The World Wide Web was started by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland late-80s, early-90s. Basically, the WWW is a system for putting linked documents (hypertext) on the Internet.

[Niall]

The internet was created by the Americans, the World Wide Web was invented by the British I think

This.

A british guy made the modern day WWW.

[Omah]

This.

A british guy made the modern day WWW.

1980 . Tim Berners-Lee writes program called "Enquire Within," predecessor to the World Wide Web.

In 1984 he returned to CERN as a fellow. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da! — the World Wide Web." He wrote his initial proposal in March 1989, and in 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau, produced a revision which was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall. He used similar ideas to those underlying the ENQUIRE system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first Web browser, which also functioned as an editor (WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

The first web site built was at CERN, and was first put on line on 6 August 1991.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

[MTVN]

It's weird how recent it all took off, 20 years ago websites didnt exist :shocked:

[Benjamin]

See I remember when the world didn't have internet, most kids now will never experience that life. :hugesmile:

[Smithy]

I think it's Switzerland, it was in that Dan Brown book :p

[Niall]

See I remember when the world didn't have internet, most kids now will never experience that life. :hugesmile:

Ew. I've had the internet all my life. :love: I could turn on the computer and stuff when was two. /smartchild

[Angus]

The US might have invented the internet but they did sod all with it till a Brit came along and invented the WWW and made the internet accessible to ALL.

[Omah]

The US might have invented the internet but they did sod all with it till a Brit came along and invented the WWW and made the internet accessible to ALL.

Making the internet "accessible to ALL" also involved the increasing availability and sophistication of PCs allied with price reductions along with increasing telephone line speeds* plus a paradigm shift in working practices .....

..... and Microsoft bundling IE with every Windows PC helped ..... ;)

* I can recall paying 1p a minute for a line speed of 56k - downloading a "single" MP3 took 40 minutes, longer if the connection broke and the download had to be restarted (from the beginning) ..... :eek:

[Angus]

Making the internet "accessible to ALL" also involved the increasing availability and sophistication of PCs allied with price reductions along with increasing telephone line speeds* plus a paradigm shift in working practices .....

..... and Microsoft bundling IE with every Windows PC helped ..... ;)

* I can recall paying 1p a minute for a line speed of 56k - downloading a "single" MP3 took 40 minutes, longer if the connection broke and the download had to be restarted (from the beginning) ..... :eek:

Lol - I can remember those pre-broadband days, with my kids monopolising the phone line on dial up to download albums that sometimes took all night!

[Omah]

Lol - I can remember those pre-broadband days, with my kids monopolising the phone line on dial up to download albums that sometimes took all night!

Yeah, I could only dream of 128k ISDN ..... and the 8Mb ADSL "pipes" of the American universities were, I was convinced, pure fantasy ..... :D

[DDRickyDD]

The United States of America.