Inventor of the Internet

Tim Berners - Lee invented the Internet and he is British, we should be shouting this from the rooftops to tell the World and be proud.

Also, to show what a good guy he is, say that he did not wish to profit from it so that everyone would benefit from his invention.

Whilst all his colleages made millions of pounds from their research, Berners - Lee is still a relatively poor man, but happy that he gave this wonderfull gift to mankind.

Erm...

No I think you'll find he invented the web browser... and as a result became known as the inventor of the web...

The internet was a whole other invention... Easy mistake to make but the net is a hell of a lot bigger and more complex than just that dinky web thing you know

The Internet itself has it's origins in a project run by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a science research body set up in 1957 by the Pentagon. The popular belief is that ARPA created ARPAnet, the precursor of today's Internet, so that data held on Pentagon computers could survive a nuclear attack by being downloaded to other remote computers not affected by such an attack. This is false. ARPAnet was commissioned so that early mainframes at universities, research centres, defence contractors, and arms of the military could share resources with each other. Unlike today's small personal computers which are portable, the computers linked in the first ARPA experiments were the size of a large refrigerator and could not be transported easily if at all. Another obstacle was that these mainframe computers were not compatible. ARPA commissioned Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) to link these large, complicated, and incompatible computers together in a network so that computing power could be shared amongst various applications. In 1970, the first for nodes of the ARPAnet were online, and experimenters began developing protocols and uses for the network. While working on the file transfer protocol (FTP) for the network, researchers and programmers often used real time text based computer mediated communication (CMC). Hafner writes that in 1971 - 72, "Members of the team would all log on at once, from Palo Alto and Cambridge and L.A. and Salt Lake, and for an hour or two at a stretch trade comments back and forth. Conversing through keyboards and terminals was less spontaneous than speaking, but Bhushan [the chairman of the FTP group] believed in forced clarity into their thinking. it also had the advantage of creating a record of their work." This was perhaps the first use of real time CMC.

Check out:

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

Originally posted by Martin_s

Erm...

 

No I think you'll find he invented the web browser... and as a result became known as the inventor of the web...

He had to create a web browser to view the new HTML files he had invented using the URL system he just invented.

Anyone else here use Mosaic 1.0?

Originally posted by halevan

Tim Berners - Lee invented the Internet and he is British, we should be shouting this from the rooftops to tell the World and be proud.

We have ! He was awarded a KBE and its been seen around the world on such pages as

http://www5.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/31/britain.honors.webman/

http://www.britainusa.com/science/xq/asp/SarticleType.1/Article_ID.4595/qx/articles_show.htm

http://www.zdnetindia.com/print.html?iElementId=95200

Probably one of the better recipients of the new years honors...

Yes as Martin_s says he did not invent the internet - but he did invent the world wide web 1989 and the first web browser and server in 1990. Most people agree that the internet was born out of a system called Arpanet which was a system invented by the Americans in 1969.

Sadly, I did read something similar to what Halevan has claimed in one of our national tabloids i.e. that the British invented the internet.

But yes,....he is a good bloke and well derserving of his New Years Gong.

More info on Tim Berners Lee

More info on the history of the internet

Nomme

Originally posted by halevan

Tim Berners - Lee invented the world Wide Web and he is British, we should be shouting this from the rooftops to tell the World and be proud.

 

Also, to show what a good guy he is, say that he did not wish to profit from it so that everyone would benefit from his invention.

 

Whilst all his colleages made millions of pounds from their research, Berners - Lee is still a relatively poor man, but happy that he gave this wonderfull gift to mankind.

This is no earthly use to this discussion but my ex sister - in - law used to lodge with Tim Berners Lee's parents (V. Nice house ) - I got the impression they would agree with Halevan and Phan

This isn't open to opinion it's down to definitions and then fact... The web is NOT the internet..

The internet is a MASSIVE collection of communication protocols of which the web is only one part...

Email

IRC

Instant messaging

and the list goes on...

Why is this even being argued... ?

<shrugs> dunno - was just taking the opportunity to name drop

Originally posted by Siân

<shrugs> dunno - was just taking the opportunity to name drop

yes... but did you have to drop it on my head?