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Somehow me and my little nerd possy got to wondering who invented the internet.

The first thing that came to mind was this.

Then I thought of the other religions.

Thoughts on who invented the internet?

My little nerd possy

I reread this twice because I was confused with something else.

@ Topic

Let’s find out, shall we?

I hope you are not serious, Sweatie Killer.

i did.

he did.

The internet was created by Digletts. All Digletts are connected underground, thereby creating a series of tubes. Information may travel along the Digletts’ bodies at light-speed.

WINRAR!!!1

Basically it went like this:

In the late 1950’s some of the first private intranets were created. In 1966, the US Department of Defense created ARPANET.

Around the same time, other computer networks were developed by other commercial and scientific agencies like England’s National Physical Laboratory.

Most networks were relatively small and didn’t connect with other networks. But France’s Cyclades network was built with the focus of inter-network communications with a decentralized structure, for the first time using computers that functioned solely as transfer nodes rather than direct one-to-one connections.

Inspired by the Cyclades model, the phone companies, DARPA, and ISO got together and standardized the different communications and transfer protocols into one TCP:IP protocol some time in the late 80s.

History of the Internet from Melih Bilgil on Vimeo.

In 1988, while Al Gore was in the Senate, he created the High Performance Computing Act which was enacted in 1991 and granted money toward research that led to the creation of MOSAIC, the world’s first Web Browser.

Meanwhile, CERN had become the largest Internet node in Europe, where Tim Berners Lee was working on the development of Hypertext Transfer Protocol or HTTP, which eventually turned into the World Wide Web as we know it today.

I’m sure I missed a few important steps and important people, but that’s basically the gist of it.

As for the popularization of the lulzy plural form of “Internets”, we have G Dub to thank for that.

We did it.

yeeeaah… Ima gonna hafta go with anon ymous on this one
Anonymous (INB4 they were truly anon) made it so they could rule the world.
they were like … that really cool organization…

Wait, what ?
Does that mean that France… was the first country to inspire a network “with the focus of inter-network communications with a decentralized structure, for the first time using computers that functioned solely as transfer nodes rather than direct one-to-one connections.”

I’m so proud of being a Frenchman now.

Congrats, You Deserve it.