Who made the internet?

Jordy · 16-05-2008, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by Klydo

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

All he did was invent the telephone, the internet could exist with out phone lines, it just probably wouldn't of took off as easily and would be more costly.

The same goes for everything with the internet, with out the person who invented electricity the internet wouldn't be here? With out the person who made a computer the internet wouldn't here? The internet and world wide web wouldn't be possible with out thousands of people, some people contributed more than others but no one single handily made it. Tim Berners-Lee is largely responsible for the WWW but of course it wouldn't of happened with out loads of other people.

I think Bill Gates indirectly helped make the internet take off. If it wasn't for him they'd only be over-priced dominating Mac's which hardly anyone could afford so therefore they'd be hardly any home computers and hardly anyone using the internet so it wouldn't of took off.

~~Moh~~ · 16-05-2008, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Jordy

All he did was invent the telephone, the internet could exist with out phone lines, it just probably wouldn't of took off as easily and would be more costly.

The same goes for everything with the internet, with out the person who invented electricity the internet wouldn't be here? With out the person who made a computer the internet wouldn't here? The internet and world wide web wouldn't be possible with out thousands of people, some people contributed more than others but no one single handily made it. Tim Berners-Lee is largely responsible for the WWW but of course it wouldn't of happened with out loads of other people.

I think Bill Gates indirectly helped make the internet take off. If it wasn't for him they'd only be over-priced dominating Mac's which hardly anyone could afford so therefore they'd be hardly any home computers and hardly anyone using the internet so it wouldn't of took off.

Thats where your wrong

It wasn't created for the public, it was created for scientists etc.. in 1960 to communicate with each other. They then saw it as new technology. Wires connecting computers in a "web" of networks. The internet was created by the government, but they don't own it ;o

Yea, got it off some of my coursework.

~~Purposeless~~ · 16-05-2008, 09:53 PM

The idea The initial idea is credited as being Leonard Kleinrock's after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.
In 1962 J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. In addition to the ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network, which later became ARPANET.

Initial creation
The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960's.
In the summer of 1968 the Network Working Group (NWG) held its first meeting chaired by Elmer Shapiro with the Stanford Research Institute (SLI) with attendees: Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton. In the meeting the group discussed solving issues related to getting hosts to communicate with each other.
In December 1968 Elmer Shapiro with SLI released a report "A Study of Computer Network Design Parameters". Based on this work and earlier work done by Paul Baran, Thomas Marill and others; Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler helped to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. BBN was later awarded the contract to design and build the IMP sub network.

Introduction of the Internet to the general public
UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969.

First network equipment
August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment (called "IMP", which is short for Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA and on September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the switch.

The first distributed message
On Friday October 29, 1969 the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard KleinRock's laboratory at UCLA after the second piece of network equipment was installed at SLI. This connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made but is also considered to be the first Internet backbone.
The first message to be distributed was: "LO", which was an attempt at "LOGIN" by Charley S. Kline to log into the SLI computer from UCLA. However, the message was unable to be completed because the SLI system crashed. Shortly after the crash the issue was resolved and he was able to log into the computer.

E-mail is developed
Ray Tomlinson introduces network e-mail in 1972, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.

TCP is developed
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC 675.

Ethernet is conceived
Bob Metcalfe develops Ethernet idea in 1973.

TCP/IP is created
In 1978 TCP splits into TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP. TCP/IP is later standardized into ARPANET in 1983 and is still the primary protocol used for the Internet.

DNS is introduced
Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS in 1984.

HTML
In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, which makes a huge contribution to how we navigate and view the Internet today.

WWW
Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on August 6, 1991.

So mainly to make what the internet is today all these people invented stuff for it

Stephen! · 16-05-2008, 09:54 PM

I made the internet.

~~Purposeless~~ · 16-05-2008, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by Stephen

I made the internet.

Cool

My grandads bill gates

Hypertext · 16-05-2008, 10:36 PM

yes Ip's ARE running out!

So we now have ipv6 which will be popularized soon.

it looks a bit like this (not exact):
f980:3037:nx72:8zxb:36dt

That'll keep a few trillion online.