When was the Internet invented and who by?

Answer 1

Hi, Answer from Shahid Zaheer, The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). = Who Invented the Internet? = Despite what he may have said, Al Gore did not invent the Internet. The Internet was invented in the United States during the late 1950s to the 1970s by a group of researchers and scientists at the newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) after the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Realizing that the United States had suffered a great technological blow by allowing the USSR to hold the first successful satellite launch, ARPA set out to create a brand new technology unlike anything that had ever been done before; and the Internet was the result of their hard work. Although there were many people working for ARPA on the Internet project, there are five individuals who can really be credited with actually creating the Internet. Among them was J. C. R. Licklider, the head of the Information Processing Technology Office at ARPA. In his position, he thought up the idea of the Internet itself as a way of potentially unifying humans from around the United States (and the world) through a universal network. Because Licklider's previous experience was not in actual computer programming, however, he had to recruit others in order to help create the Internet for ARPA. The obvious choice was Lawrence Roberts. Roberts went on to lead the team which would eventually develop ARPANET (the early precursor to the Internet) in 1967. He was the scientist to finally utilize the proposed method of packet switching first created by Leonard Kleinrock. The Internet still uses packet switching as its primary way of transferring data. After several years of work, a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles, became the first computer to connect to the Internet. In time, three more computers would be connected to the Internet in 1969, leading to the start of the Internet revolution. Despite the massive success that Lawrence Roberts had received while working at ARPA, he promptly quit his position in 1973 in order to form the world's first commercial network, known at that time as Telenet. However, in his place, he assigned Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf to continue working on the Internet at ARPA. Together, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf worked to modify the original method of packet switching pioneered by Roberts and Kleinrock and eventually created what is now known as the TCP/IP protocols. It was at this point when ARPANET was finally changed to the more easily pronounced Internet. BY: SHAHID ZAHEER

Answer 2

The internet as we now have it started as a DARPA project called ARPANET with 4 nodes established starting in October 1969. The first 4 nodes were at UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science, SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah Graphics Department. By the end of 1971, there were already fifteen sites connected to ARPANET. ARPANET was established with the intent of interconnecting computers used by the US Department of Defense and some of their private and academic partners. At the same time, other work was going on into ways to network computers and share information between them, but these other projects, such as Mark I at NPL in the UK, CYCLADES, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were focused more on creating a network between a limited number of machines while ARPANET attempted to allow networking between multiple separate networks - which is what the internet now is, on a grand scale!

Answer 3

As you might expect for a technology so expansive and ever-changing, it is impossible to credit the invention of the Internet to a single person. The Internet was the work of dozens of pioneering scientists, programmers and engineers who each developed new features and technologies that eventually merged to become the information superhighway we know today.

Answer 4

J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor invented the Internet and it was invented so people can have a purpose of using their computer.

Answer 5

The internet was invented in 1969, it was developed by the ARPA (advanced research projects agency).

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Answer 6

the internet was invented to help to research, and students can be able to find information. it was invented in the year 1958 and byVinton Cerf