So who really invented the internet/www?

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: KLin
damnit, it was Al Gore!!!

:thumbsup:

 

[Homerboy]

ARPANET for US Military via BBN

read "When (or where?) Wizards Stay Up Late"

and yes internet != www
you have to seperate the two.

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: FearoftheNight

Originally posted by: FallenHero
US military

So all those sites are lying? I duno I just want to know the truth.

The truth is out there.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: tagej
This site gives a pretty good overview of how the internet was actually formed.

I like this part:

Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN!

It was stuck on the G-String baby.

 

[Wahsapa]

read up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

 

[Cattlegod]

42

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: KLin
damnit, it was Al Gore!!!

Everyone knows that.

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: MisfitsFiend
UIUC = University of Illinois at Champaigne Urbana I remember one of my classes saying something about the internet originating there...or maybe it was email...don't remember....

they created mosaic

 

[nCred]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
read up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

You mean here.

 

Comrade George w Bush.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

everyone knows it was gore stop spreading misinformation

 

[SilverTorch]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
US military

US military somewhere around the 60's was working on a project (widely known as ARPA) to create a "network" (even though it wasn't called that) where the nodes communicated with each other and worked together, but could also sustain loss of any given node (say, incase of a nuclear attack on one of them) and still function together without the lost node. This was the ground work for teh intraweb, protocols used on this network were developed elsewhere.

 

[FearoftheNight]

wut is this business with al gore and the internet? am i missing out on some sort of joke?

 

[dnuggett]

Tim Berners-Lee

This is the man who created the language and idea behind www.

Not the same as the internet.

The question as it is worded (internet/www) is misleading.

 

[anxi80]

In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

 

[AsianriceX]

Originally posted by: Hammer

Originally posted by: MisfitsFiend
UIUC = University of Illinois at Champaigne Urbana I remember one of my classes saying something about the internet originating there...or maybe it was email...don't remember....

they created mosaic

Yes, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications based at UIUC created the first graphical browser known as Mosaic. Do a Help->About on IE and you'll see that it's based off of Mosaic.

Go Illini!

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: KLin
damnit, it was Al Gore!!!

I swear... it's true