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| hyaterica |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 12:38 AM
seriously, who 'invented' the internet?
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| MillionDollars |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 05:58 AM
I think it evolved over time rather than being invented by one person/company. But the technology was first developed by DOD but I may be wrong...
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| geordie |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 06:05 AM
US ARMY
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| redstone |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 06:05 AM
I think MillionDollars is right, it was developed over time, but the first file transfer and crap was done by army during second world war. thats how it started. i think IBM was the one who came up with idea. but i doubt it.
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| utopian |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 06:08 AM
It had been in use by Department of Defense (DoD) for a long time until it was made available to general public.
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| AX |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 06:49 AM
ex VP AL GORE
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| LadyBug |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 06:50 AM
It was actually developed in a Particle Physics Lab in Switzlerland, hyaterica.
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| Obie Trice |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 08:04 AM
I know all of you know how they developed Internet over the time. You can easily find information -- just google it.
In 1964, American military were looking for a convienent way to communicate each other, residing in different locations. A centralized system might easily be destroyed in wartime, and so traditional technologies wouldn't work. This fear impressed a need on the government to do something different -- to develop a whole new scheme for communication.
The roots of today's Internet come from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Instead of performing its own research, ARPA (a branch of the Department of Defense), which became DARPA in 1972, regularly funded research projects related to technological development or military problems. In the 1960s, ARPA became interested in developing a way for computers to communicate with each other and began to fund programs at universities and corporations, including MIT and RAND. A network would both advance American technological development and provide a secure command and control over information during wartime. To this end, in the mid-1960s, ARPA began to support research into building an effective network.
On January 2, 1969, designers began working on an experiment to determine whether computers at different universities could communicate with each other without a central system. The corporation Bolt, Baranek and Newman had been awarded the contract to develop the Interface Message Processor (IMP), the basis of the new communications system. IMPs were small machines which were part of each host and were dedicated to forming the network between computers [1]. IMPs would use a technology called packet-switching, which split large sections of data into small parts called packets, each labeled with its destination address. Packets could be sent in any order and through different routes which all led to the same destination [2]. Upon arrival at the destination computer, the packets could be reassembled. (While the term has died out, IMPs form the backbone of packet-switching networks today.)
for more:
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html
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| redstone |
Posted
on 16-Apr-04 08:45 AM
damn, sajhaities and the google..like made of each other.
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