The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960’s. Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961. J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the “Galactic Network.” So it is not a single person who created internet.
The Internet was originally developed by DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities.
Originally it was just email and FTP sites as well as the Usenet, where scientists could question and answer each other. It was originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). The concept was developed starting in 1964, and the first messages passed were between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT had published the first paper on packet switching theory in 1961. Since networking computers was new to begin with, standards were being developed on the fly. Once the concept was proven, the organizations involved started to lay out some ground rules for standardization.
One of the most important was the communications protocol, TCP/IP, developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1974. Robert Metcalfe is credited with Ethernet, which is the basic communication standard in networked computers.
Tim Berners-Lee, who perhaps specified technological applicability and/or linguistic construction of HTML while working at CERN, is chiefly credited for the ease of use and wide public adoption of the web. His website is: w3.org.
Al Gore really did have a substantial part in the US legal framework and governmental issues related to the Internet; he never said he invented it.
There wasn’t just ONE person who invented the Internet. The Internet is just a way to view files and information that someone puts onto a server. The Internet is just a way to access the information.
Leonard Kleinrock was the first person to write a paper on the idea of packet switching (which is essential for the Internet to work. He wrote this idea in 1961.
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A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today. Below is a listing of several different people who’ve helped contribute and develop the Internet.
The ideaThe 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 (SRI) 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 SRI 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. Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (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.
History of the Internet and the Cold War
Many of us remember the dot com explosion and its crash that took place in the 1990s. Before then the internet can trace its root more 40 years ago. The space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S and creation of the atomic bomb all contributed to the invention of the internet. During the cold war, the U.S military realized its normal communication technologies like the telephone was not safe and could be attacked by the Soviets. The military realized using a central exchange which connects telephones was vulnerable because if the exchange stops working then you can’t make any call.
The military knew a different approach of military communication needed very quick. The military decided to invent network of computers that would carry on communication with each other even after a nuclear attacked called ARPAnet. APARnet was used for computer to send messages to one another. Over the years it grew into a world wide of network of interconnected computers which became known as the internet.
Many people don’t the internet was not invented in the 1990s, but the 1960s at the height of the cold war. You might say some conflict can bring about big changes among mankind. Some people even construed that Al Gore invented the internet known as the information highway. Is that really true? Al Gore was not even in congress when the internet was created in mid 1960. I think the point he was trying to make was, in congress he helped to push the further development of the internet.
