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The Inventor Of The Internet

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    #32
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    No, as people have said already, all he did was invent...

    So why post it again?
    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    but if he hadn't, someone else would have,
    Daftest statement ever.. You could try nail that on any invention I suppose.
    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    It's not on par with the internal combustion engine or the microprocessor.

    I Disagree.
    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    ARPA Net spends decades and billions of dollars inventing and developing 'the internet', so if you have anyone to thank, it should be the US military.

    I already mentioned them. Both in the original post and since..

    Anyway.. It's hard to make a thread thanking every code monkey who in any way contributed to the largest open source entity on the planet.

    Every organisation needs a face, every band a frontman.
    And for me ..
    The Intertoobz frontman is Timothy.


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    #33
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Created by ARPA, Tim Berners Lee created the WWW. Basically, the ability to translate IP addresses into domains (87.22.33.44 => www.boards.ie) - so people wouldn't have to remember like 5000000 different ip addresses. It made the internet feasible for wide-spread use.

    That's DNS, not WWW, it was possible to do this several years before the WWW existed AFAIK.

    Tim Berners-Lee created the first HTTP server and web browser.


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    #34
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    keefg wrote: »
    I think in lay mans terms it's fair to say TBL invented the internet even though that isn't technically right.

    I mean, how many people do you hear say "I just booked some really cheap flights on the WWW"?

    no because he didn't invent the internet, the internet was around for nearly 30 years before TBL created the WWW, lets just say ed sullivan created the television just for the hell of it :pac:


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    #35
    genericguy
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    Rabies wrote: »
    If the cave man that invented the wheel set up patent rights he'd be fairly rich too.... but he didn't


    The internet, what would be do with out it.

    Talk to people
    Buy paper back porn
    Play board games.
    Post letters and packages.
    Search in books for answers.

    paper back porn sounds absolutely mental to me.


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    #36
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Wazdakka wrote: »

    Daftest statement ever.. You could try nail that on any invention I suppose.

    You're statement that Tim Berners-Lee 'invented' the Internet was far dafter.

    I think my point still stands, it wasn't a huge innovation and it didn't take a huge leap of imagination or intellect


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    #37
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,470 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Rabies wrote: »
    Buy paper back porn

    Buy Porn?
    Don't think that'd catch on


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    #38
    McArmalite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭McArmalite


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    But probably the one person who can be credited for the world wide web as we know it now is Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee

    This guy has to be the single most unappreciated man alive.
    I mean.. Sweet Jesus Titty Fúcking Christ..
    He invented THE INTERNET!!
    According to the wiki link you provided about Timothy Berners-Lee he also invented with a Belgian geek called Robert Cailliau " On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau

    A bit off topic, but the fellow who invented the mouse, Douglas Engelbart while doing projects with the Stanford Research Institute never bothered to patent it :eek:. During an interview he gave the reason why he did not patent it " Stanford Research Institute patented the mouse, but they really had no idea of its value. Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like $40,000."

    Just think of the dosh he could have made from that if he copy righted it for himself :eek:


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    #39
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    McArmalite wrote: »

    Just think of the dosh he could have made from that if he copy righted it for himself :eek:

    lots of people don't patent things though, the woman that created the "welcome to las vegas" sign is a great example, that symbol has been used everywhere over the years and its image could have made her a billionaire if only she copyrighted it http://z.about.com/d/gosw/1/0/O/6/1vegas.jpg


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    #40
    kierank01
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭kierank01


    nobody seems to have mentioned Vint Cerf, who is often called 'the father of the internet'


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    #41
    geeky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Read an interview with him not too long ago. Came across as a very nice, unassuming man. As previous posters have said, he didn't invent the internet, but www was a huge leap, and the decision to give it away free changed the world.

    He's not Bill Gates rich, but he'll never want for a well-paid job doing what he likes. He deserves that, and a lot of kudos!


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    #42
    sink
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    FYI TCP/IP is the protocol suite of the internet. It's robust packet switching design which is independent of hardware specifications made a global interconnected commercial network feasible and it was invented by two men, Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf while working for ARPA. If you are going to credit anyone with the invention of the internet it is these two men.


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