Which of these ' invented ' the Internet ?

[daveza]

Apologies - not quite Natural Science but more likely to get an educated answer here.

I have two different sources who point to two different ' first times ' that one computer communicated with another:

http://www.tech-faq.com/who-invented-the-internet.html

The Internet was invented in the United States during the late 1950s to the 1970s by a group of researchers and scientists at the newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency.
After several years of work, a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles, became the first computer to connect to the Internet. In time, three more computers would be connected to the Internet in 1969, leading to the start of the Internet revolution

http://www.time.com/time/2007/blackhistmth/bios/04.html

But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once.

The Americans, the Nigerian, or a combination of both ?

 

[TJ99]

First off, the web != the Internet so it's not really a fair question

Second, it's kind of a rule of thumb to never believe any claim any Nigerian makes on, about, in reference to, or even vaguely reminding one of the internet, the www, the lottery or an inheritance

Third, everyone knows Al Gore created the internet, he said so. Would Al Gore lie? :twisted:

 

[Fader4]

i think by "internet" you are probably referring to the www, in that case its this guy.

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

 

[daveza]

By 'the Internet ' I'm loosely referring to two or more computers communicating which each other.

 

[rrh]

http://www.time.com/time/2007/blackhistmth/bios/04.html[/url]

The Americans, the Nigerian, or a combination of both ?

Google "Philip Emeagwali" and you will find thousands of references, all with the word "fraudster" in the same sentence as his name ...

As an example: he touts himself as having won the Nobel Prize in Computing, an award that doesn't exist ...

To brush up on your computing history see the following for an accurate summmary:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-start.htm

 

[Fudzy]

I wonder if he knows the prince who's sharing his millions with me.

 

[daveza]

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/in...rnet-start.htm

Not a mention of Mr Emeagwali - thank you.

I took the Time reference as legitimacy.

 

[TJ99]

See, I told you. Nigerians + Internet = Scam

 

[TheHiveMind]

computer science departments at uni's in america developed networking. The internet is just networking on a massive scale.

 

[Palimino]

First off, the web != the Internet so it's not really a fair question

Exactly! The internet does NOT = the www by a long shot and predates the www by decades.

 

[satanboy]

isn't it god?

sorry...couldn't resist

 

[ponder]

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

 

[BigAl-sa]

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

Interesting in the section "Africa", South Africa still doesn't exist.

 

[ponder]

Interesting in the section "Africa", South Africa still doesn't exist.

I don't know when SA first got internet but I know I had access to it in 1991 (via a 9.6kb/s leased line I think).

Interesting article (pdf doc & web view), looks like Rhodes lead the way.
http://www.aug.co.za/PPTFiles/The History of the Internet in South Africa.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...cVchfv&sig=AHIEtbQiEbMqHxwMdsNXlBsaFRmB55tNeg

 

[bullzeye.za]

I was at a conference thing a little while ago about the startup of the internet in SA -

Was a professor at Rhodes that brought things in, often through potentially illegal means in the early days.

 

[BigAl-sa]

I don't know when SA first got internet but I know I had access to it in 1991 (via a 9.6kb/s leased line I think).

Interesting article (pdf doc & web view), looks like Rhodes lead the way.
http://www.aug.co.za/PPTFiles/The History of the Internet in South Africa.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...cVchfv&sig=AHIEtbQiEbMqHxwMdsNXlBsaFRmB55tNeg

Nice find ponder - names I remember from the past! Interesting that even in those days, Telkom was the fly in the ointment!

I was at a conference thing a little while ago about the startup of the internet in SA -

Was a professor at Rhodes that brought things in, often through potentially illegal means in the early days.

Mike Lawrie, from Rhodes, was the prime mover (see Ponder's link).
http://www.ru.ac.za/alumni/oldrhodianunion/oldrhodianawards/2006recipients

 

[Keeper]

Vint Cerf of course.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Vint Cerf of course.

You don't think it was Bob Kahn?

 

[Keeper]

You don't think it was Bob Kahn?

Both it seems.

Robert Elliot Kahn is an American Internet pioneer, engineer and computer scientist, who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.

 

[Eyenstyn]

According to me DARPA created it to assist in connecting research institutions and universities. http://www.lincoln.edu/math/rmyrick/ComputerNetworks/InetReference/57.htm

HTTP protocol invented by Tim Burners Lee(Father of the Internet), based on FTP. Concept of today's internet is loosely based on the device called the Memex, designed by Sutherland.