Who started the internet???

[stev0]

I always thought that it was Prodigy that started it 15 years ago or something like that.... am I right... close?

edit: I was afraid of that Al Gore junk... What I ment was the world wide web.

 

[minendo]

Al Gore of course

 

[pulse8]

Al Gore

 

[N8Magic]

Another vote for Al Gore.

 

[rival]

you sir, are um, way the hell off

al gore did it, back in the 70s i reckon, when you put mr. gore, a 12 pack of 'near beer' and some o them there telephono wi-ra, you done gets the intermanet

 

[minendo]

<< Another vote for Al Gore. >>


make sure those votes are properly counted

 

[SSP]

Are you asking who the first consumer ISP was?

 

[ShadowFox]

a bunch of researchers in the '70s in california

 

[Halogen]

Gore

 

[fatbaby]

"this wonderful man invented the calculator..."

 

[Ameesh]

it started with the military it was called arpanet.

 

[Capn]

I think it was initially a military project to keep information flowing in the event of nuclear war.

 

[cavemanmoron]

look here,
and here,
and HERE also!!

 

[ToBeMe]

I couldn't read my ballot...........I wanted to vote for Al Gore as the person whom invented the Internet...........but I think I ended up voting for someone else................

 

[samgau]

The french in the 80's had a similar system... i think its still in use.. called 'minitel'... but the www.. was first the US military then US universities joined in cause they got leased lines for very cheap... now everybody..

 

[stev0]

yea got that ToBeMe!! From what I've found it was the military... MILNET and ARPANET... or something like that, one took over the military network and the other was for the rest of the world... I'll keep reading..

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

UCLA = birthplace of the internet (so says UCLA)
Al Gore = illegitimate father of the internet (so says Republicans)

 

[LiQiCE]

The World Wide Web in its now-graphical form was started when programmers at NCSA wrote Mosaic, the first graphical web browser. Before Mosaic, the only web browsers around were things like Lynx for UNIX. The programmers who wrote NCSA Mosaic went onto start Netscape.

But like others have said, the actual Internet was started as a Military project called ARPANet that aimed to keep communications going in the event of Nuclear warfare. The concept of the Internet is such that if for some reason a route goes down, you would still be able to contact the same computer using a different route. It still sortof works that way today, but not necessarily.

 

[DanFungus]

Al Gore

 

[Wallydraigle]

The first dude to attach two cups together with a piece of string.

 

[Ismisus]

Al Gore quote link

He says, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving..."

So don't listen to republican propaganda about Al Gore inventing the internet.

 

[kt]

you're all wrong.. Al Gore started the whole thing. He invented the Internet and the World Wide Web. And now, he's working on Internet2. I suspect he purposely lose the Presidential election so he could have more time to work on Internet2.

 

[bigshooter]

The internet was actually started by the department of defense in the 50's.

 

[Zenmervolt]

The internet did start out as arpanet as has been said. As for HTML and the internet as we know it today, that was started by Tim Brenners Lee, who created HTML as a means of communicating information among physicists.

ZV

 

[Mucman]

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