Who made the internet?

[Hypertext]

To follow on, ages ago there was many different 'net's, they weren't called internet as many of them wern't connected. Within a few decades they realized then potential, and they made the "root server" which is administrated and maintained by ICANN. This root server, is where dns is, they decide wether we can have .com or .what_i_want, although there are alternative roots known as "alt roots", these are what it used to be, they're own network, eg I bet you didn't know theres such thing as asia.asia? Try type it in as a url, thats on an alt root.

[Dentafrice]

Those are called TLD's - Top Level Domains.

[msb.]

lol i learn too much from you lot lol, ta

dentafrice, nice to see u bak

[Dentafrice]

ha, thanks.

I'm back when I get bored.

[Jordy]

The American's (NASA) made the Internet you could say, though I guess it's an Intranet. However the world-wide web is different, it was created in Switzerland in CERN Labs by Tim-berners Lee (British!) and a few others but he's mainly responsible for making the WWW. With out the internet, DNS System, Hypertext and numerous other things they could of never made the WWW. The WWW is a bit like a compilation of loads of things.

[iUnknown]

From personal knowledge, I believe the internet/world wide web was developed and created at Cern in Geneva... I've seen a massive billboard about it in an airport. They're also developing something like version two of the internet called the Grid that you might of heard about, based around optic fibres and super fast speeds.

[Dentafrice]

Bill Gates.

[Klydo]

I say Alexander Graham Bell made the internet, without him this whole thing wouldn't exist

[Moh]

Wasn't the internet originally created so that the government could communicate with each other even if one computer was destroyed, the message would be passed onto another computer to send to another computer etc. So to cut communications, you would have to destroy every computer connected.

Only 4228250625 computers can be connected to the internet at one very time, but the number of computers connecting to the internet is growing, the IP address's may have to change
So currently its like 255.255.255.255, it may have to be lengthened to something like 255.255.255.255.255

[Flisker]

Bill Gates.

Huh?...