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Shazz 10-14-2006 10:41 PM
A question that can't be answered...
 
Somehow in this magazine it says Al Gore invented the internet..
I could find about 10 different site with 10 different answers...
Question is:

Who invented the internet?
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:bored:

Guest190829 10-14-2006 10:49 PM
The origins of the Internet are during the Cold War - when Russia launched Sputnik. It caused the United States to realize its need for a country-wide network in the event of a nuclear attack.

Projects began and people built off each others work and finding and eventually created what is known as the Internet.

Also - the amount of growth in terms of user base of the Internet was unimaginable when the WWW was created.

If you want specifics, I suggest you go to your local library and research it. It is pretty interesting.

harmor19 10-14-2006 11:17 PM
<a href="http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml</a>

Freesteyelz 10-15-2006 03:36 AM
As I understand it, Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. People either misquoted, embellished or took his statements out of context to come to that conclusion.

Shazz 10-15-2006 04:11 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Freesteyelz
As I understand it, Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. People either misquoted, embellished or took his statements out of context to come to that conclusion.
I laughed my hardest at that...
I saw a clip of him saying it, right after he lost the elections of president Bush.. Ill try and find it.

Freesteyelz 10-15-2006 04:14 AM
Are you referring to the Tonight Show?

Shazz 10-15-2006 04:17 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Freesteyelz
Are you referring to the Tonight Show?
No, This is REAL, He really said it. No edits on this clip

Freesteyelz 10-15-2006 04:21 AM
I meant that he came as a guest on the Tonight Show and stated that he had contributed to the internet as we know it. His statements were true, as a congressman he did help to promote and expand the internet; allowing companies and people in the game to do their thing.

I'll have to take a look at your clip to see where he was coming from.

Shazz 10-15-2006 04:25 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Freesteyelz
I meant that he came as a guest on the Tonight Show and stated that he had contributed to the internet as we know it. His statements were true, as a congressman he did help to promote and expand the internet; allowing companies and people in the game to do their thing.

I'll have to take a look at your clip to see where he was coming from.
But it was too long ago for him to do that, He would be like 15-20 years old.

peterska2 10-15-2006 04:31 AM
the internet was invented by tim berners-lee and has been around for over 40 years.

Shazz 10-15-2006 04:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterska2
the internet was invented by tim berners-lee and has been around for over 40 years.
Thats a new name out of my 12 Sites ive viewed of so far popped up...

peterska2 10-15-2006 04:39 AM
ill double check in the morning. if not then it was the www-the details are on the pc

peterska2 10-15-2006 04:53 AM
I couldn't wait till morning as it would bug me, so I went and got my files.

Ok, from my university course notes

Quote:
The Original Internet

The first Internet network was called ARPANET. It was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), funded by the US Dept of Defense. The network made use of a technique called Packet-Switched Networking. The original network connected 4 western US universities to test the concept. Over time other networks were added and interconnected such as Eunet, BitNet, NSFnet, JANET and so on. The different networks were funded by different bodies, JANET was the UK academic network, NSFnet played the same role in the USA. The original ARPANET itself was decommissioned in 1989 as all its users had more appropriate access through other networks.
Quote:
History of the World Wide Web

Like all good inventions, the World Wide Web (or just the Web) was developed to fulfil a need. In the late 1980’s, a research scientist called Tim Berners-Lee was working at the European particle physics lab (CERN) in Switzerland. CERN had a large number of researchers working on many separate projects. Researchers need to share information, but they were frequently unable to do so because they used different types of computer system. At that time there was no common format for exchanging documents or even networking different computer systems together.

To succeed in developing a system to share information across the various computer systems, three key problems needed to be solved:

1. Documents needed to be presented in a format which all computers could display
2. A communications protocol was needed to would allow dissimilar computers to exchange information
3. An addressing scheme to allows computers to find resources located elsewhere on another computer was needed

The solutions to these three problems are the foundations on which the web is built. These are HTML, HTTP and URL.
I hope this helps.

Shazz 10-15-2006 05:00 AM
I see!
So how would Al Gore relate to all this?

peterska2 10-15-2006 05:08 AM
As far as I am aware it is all talk and not a single ounce of truth to it. Not once has he been mentioned in either my lectures, course notes, or reading material.

Freesteyelz 10-15-2006 05:24 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterska2
the internet was invented by tim berners-lee and has been around for over 40 years.
Sorry, but the WWW (World Wide Web) is not the internet.

Shazz 10-15-2006 05:28 AM
Everyone has there different point of view...

peterska2 10-15-2006 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Freesteyelz
Sorry, but the WWW (World Wide Web) is not the internet.
See my next two posts in this thread. I realised my mistake and corrected it.

Baring in mind that it is approaching 7:30am here now, I've not yet been to bed and I've been out most of the night at a concert then back to a house party before coming home, I can almost forgive myself for making such a n00bish mistake.

peterska2 10-15-2006 05:43 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shazz
Everyone has there different point of view...
Freesteyelz is correct in saying that the internet is not the web.

Internet = a network of connected computers.
World Wide Web = Part of the Content of the Internet.

The Internet has been around since 1969 when the first network was set up called APRANET between 4 universities located in Utah, UCLA, Stanford, and Santa Barbara. Before this it was being developed by the American Advance Research Projects Agency which was formed in 1957 in response to the USSR launching Sputnik.

The World Wide Web was not invented until 1991.

In comparison, Usenet has been around since 1979, and IRC since 1988.

Shazz 10-15-2006 05:47 AM
Who runs it? What controls it? How could someone shut it down.
Sorry for the Irrelvant questions. Google couldn't help me
You can see my knowledge of e-net is very poor...

Freesteyelz 10-15-2006 05:49 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterska2
it is approaching 7:30am here now, I've not yet been to bed and I've been out most of the night at a concert then back to a house party before coming home
Sounds like you had a night of fun. :classic:

peterska2 10-15-2006 05:56 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Freesteyelz
Sounds like you had a night of fun. :classic:
I sure did, and boy will I know about it later lol

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shazz
Who runs it? What controls it? How could someone shut it down.
Sorry for the Irrelvant questions. Google couldn't help me
You can see my knowledge of e-net is very poor...
Why do I get this really strong feeling I'm helping you with an assignment right now? Of course if you are going to offer to write some of mine which I need to do over the next day or two then I don't mind ;) :p

You might want to take a look at this page though. It gives a timeline of the internet and links to all different aspects relating to it

http://www.zakon.org/robert/Internet/timeline/

Shazz 10-15-2006 05:58 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterska2
I sure did, and boy will I know about it later lol


Why do I get this really strong feeling I'm helping you with an assignment right now? Of course if you are going to offer to write some of mine which I need to do over the next day or two then I don't mind ;) :p

You might want to take a look at this page though. It gives a timeline of the internet and links to all different aspects relating to it

http://www.zakon.org/robert/Internet/timeline/
Assignment haha
Ive never taken a software class in my life, I have no clue. That timeline is pretty long.. Ill start reading =\

peterska2 10-15-2006 06:13 AM
It is long, but it is very interesting reading.

theodonnells 10-17-2006 10:16 AM
I remember bt.com (british telecom) said they invented the hyperlink. They were going to go to court arguing they had the patent for it and wanted to charge everytime it was used!!! BT used to be a public company run by the government but has now gone private...

resetor 10-20-2006 09:28 PM
lol ;P

Shazz 10-20-2006 09:32 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by theodonnells
I remember bt.com (british telecom) said they invented the hyperlink. They were going to go to court arguing they had the patent for it and wanted to charge everytime it was used!!! BT used to be a public company run by the government but has now gone private...
Government Stuff... I would like to see them shut the e-net down for a day :)
The whole world would go nuts


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