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The real internet only started in 93 when I joined in.
I miss the days of the dial-up sounds
I miss the days of the dial-up sounds
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once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_ … t_invented
Many people think that the Internet is a recent innovation, when in fact the fundamental ideas behind the Internet have been around for over a quarter century.
The development of what we now call the Internet started in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite, beating the United States into space. The powers behind the American military at the time became highly alarmed as this meant that the USSR could theoretically launch bombs into space, and then drop them anywhere on earth. In 1958 the concerns of people in the US military triggered the creation of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA's initial role was to jump start American research in technology, find safeguards against a space-based missile attack and to reclaim the technological lead from the USSR. After only 18 months after the creation of DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency had developed and deployed the first US satellite. DARPA went on to have a direct contribution to the development of the Internet by appointing Joseph Licklider to head the new Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO).
Many people think that the Internet is a recent innovation, when in fact the fundamental ideas behind the Internet have been around for over a quarter century.
The development of what we now call the Internet started in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite, beating the United States into space. The powers behind the American military at the time became highly alarmed as this meant that the USSR could theoretically launch bombs into space, and then drop them anywhere on earth. In 1958 the concerns of people in the US military triggered the creation of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA's initial role was to jump start American research in technology, find safeguards against a space-based missile attack and to reclaim the technological lead from the USSR. After only 18 months after the creation of DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency had developed and deployed the first US satellite. DARPA went on to have a direct contribution to the development of the Internet by appointing Joseph Licklider to head the new Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO).
Love is the answer
The Internet was invented by the US military but the World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
The real internet didn't begin until the late 90's. It was mostly a cool niche until then.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
And having to reconnect every four hours, knowing that it would cost you another phone call and 25c each time (in my case anyway).max wrote:
I miss the days of the dial-up sounds
This^CapnNismo wrote:
The Internet was invented by the US military but the World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
The WWW is nothing more than the graphical representation of the 'Net.
OrangeHound is true old skool.
Al Gore, of course.
I remember the time when you mistyped an address, you'd just get an error message and not a page of advertisements.
lol, of course...Defiance wrote:
Al Gore, of course.
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I lol'ed.Defiance wrote:
Al Gore, of course.
That's a pretty cool picture, is that real?
Actually most of the work attributed to the military was actually done by various academic institutions. UCLA being a very important one.CapnNismo wrote:
The Internet was invented by the US military but the World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
There were no military machines connected to the original ARPANET - it was all universities. Much of the funding was from the military though.
It's not the US military we have to thank for the Internet. It's loads of crazy, clever academics.
"the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication"TopHat01 wrote:
lol, of course...Defiance wrote:
Al Gore, of course.
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if it wasn't for Al Gore i would be able to call him an idiot - thanks al gore
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The internet was started by the US military, but wasnt the World Wide Web (WWW) started by a English fellow..i think, maybe im wrong but i heard from somewhere it was, correct me if im wrong
Tim Berners-lee is generally credited with creating the www. principles that the internet as we know it is based on.ELITE-UK wrote:
The internet was started by the US military, but wasnt the World Wide Web (WWW) started by a English fellow..i think, maybe im wrong but i heard from somewhere it was, correct me if im wrong
Very true. Guess we know who didn't fall asleep in computer history class - I know I did.Bertster7 wrote:
Actually most of the work attributed to the military was actually done by various academic institutions. UCLA being a very important one.CapnNismo wrote:
The Internet was invented by the US military but the World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
There were no military machines connected to the original ARPANET - it was all universities. Much of the funding was from the military though.
It's not the US military we have to thank for the Internet. It's loads of crazy, clever academics.
The guy just took largely preexisting technologies and used them in an environment where they would obviously be beneficial. Nothing hugely insightful or unique.Noobeater wrote:
Tim Berners-lee is generally credited with creating the www. principles that the internet as we know it is based on.ELITE-UK wrote:
The internet was started by the US military, but wasnt the World Wide Web (WWW) started by a English fellow..i think, maybe im wrong but i heard from somewhere it was, correct me if im wrong
I think its the other way round?The Sheriff wrote:
This^CapnNismo wrote:
The Internet was invented by the US military but the World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
CERN created a network of PC's sharing data calling it the inernet then the US turned it in to the World Wide Web that we see today or so I have read.
Also CERN has a new "internet" called "The Grid" futureistic stuff!
No. That's utter nonsense. It is most certainly not the other way around.xRBLx wrote:
I think its the other way round?The Sheriff wrote:
This^CapnNismo wrote:
The Internet was invented by the US military but the World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
CERN created a network of PC's sharing data calling it the inernet then the US turned it in to the World Wide Web that we see today or so I have read.
Also CERN has a new "internet" called "The Grid" futureistic stuff!
ARPANET was funded by the US military and made by academics at universities across the US. This provided the networking fundamentals (such as TCP/IP, in the later stages) which todays Internet is built on. Tim Berners Lee invented the whole idea of hypertext - which is what drives the web.
Hypertext in its first developed form was around when this guy was around 10 years old, and the concept is much older. He just took the concept of interlinked documents, and moved it from local resources to remote resources. Not a hugely insightful application, really.Bertster7 wrote:
No. That's utter nonsense. It is most certainly not the other way around.xRBLx wrote:
I think its the other way round?The Sheriff wrote:
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CERN created a network of PC's sharing data calling it the inernet then the US turned it in to the World Wide Web that we see today or so I have read.
Also CERN has a new "internet" called "The Grid" futureistic stuff!
ARPANET was funded by the US military and made by academics at universities across the US. This provided the networking fundamentals (such as TCP/IP, in the later stages) which todays Internet is built on. Tim Berners Lee invented the whole idea of hypertext - which is what drives the web.
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Not in the sort of forms we recognise today it wasn't. The general concept of hypertext has been around for about a century. Complex interlinked hypertext was something Berners Lee was certainly the single biggest driving force behind - and that's before you get into the concept of distibuting the accessible data over a whole load of networked nodes (his idea). You should bear in mind that it was he who developed ENQUIRE - which did a lot for hypertext, long before the advent of the web.mikkel wrote:
Hypertext in its first developed form was around when this guy was around 10 years old, and the concept is much older. He just took the concept of interlinked documents, and moved it from local resources to remote resources. Not a hugely insightful application, really.Bertster7 wrote:
No. That's utter nonsense. It is most certainly not the other way around.xRBLx wrote:
I think its the other way round?
CERN created a network of PC's sharing data calling it the inernet then the US turned it in to the World Wide Web that we see today or so I have read.
Also CERN has a new "internet" called "The Grid" futureistic stuff!
ARPANET was funded by the US military and made by academics at universities across the US. This provided the networking fundamentals (such as TCP/IP, in the later stages) which todays Internet is built on. Tim Berners Lee invented the whole idea of hypertext - which is what drives the web.
When I said hypertext earlier, I was in fact refering to the forms we most commonly see it in today - the most prolific being HTML (which Berners Lee developed much of). To understate his role in the development of the Internet as we see it today is foolish, because there is no other single person more responsible for the Internet we have now being the way it is.
His new visions of the Semantic web look like they could revolutionise the way we search for data too. I'm keenly following developments in that.
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