Father of The Internet Vint Cerf, Says Government Gets Credit For Inventing Web
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Al Gore invented the internet.
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Everybody created the internet. You don't think those copper phone lines just sprung up all by themselves do ya?
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what computers ? IBMs and DECs maybe ? Perhaps it was BBN which with their in the field experience contributed to packet switching.. the whole Internet pissing contest is rather worthless since point to point data transmission, more secure, was NOT created by the Govt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Technologies
BBN Technologies (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman) is a high-technology company which provides research and development services. BBN is based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is perhaps best known for its work in the development of packet switching (including the ARPANET and the Internet) and for its 1978 acoustical analysis for the House Select Committee on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but it is also a military contractor, primarily for DARPA.
Computer technologies
Some of BBN's notable developments in the field of computer networks are the implementation and operation of the ARPANET; the first person-to-person network email sent [5] and the use of the @ sign in an email address[6] ; the first Internet protocol router (then called an Interface Message Processor)[citation needed]; the Voice Funnel, an early predecessor of voice over IP; and work on the development of TCP. Other well-known BBN computer-related innovations include the first time-sharing system, the LOGO programming language, the TOPS-20 (TENEX) operating system, the Colossal Cave Adventure game, the first link-state routing protocol, and a series of mobile ad-hoc networks starting in the 1970s.[citation needed] BBN also is well known for its parallel computing systems, including the Pluribus, and the BBN Butterfly computers, which have been used for such tasks as warfare simulation for the U.S. Navy.[citation needed]
BBN was the first networking organization to receive an Autonomous System Number (AS1) for network identification.[7] ASNs are an essential identification element used for Internet Backbone Routing. Lower numbers generally indicate a longer established presence on the Internet. AS1 is now operated by Level 3 Communications following their acquisition of Genuity.
Today, BBN leads a wide range of research and development projects, including the standardization effort for Internet security architecture (IPsec), the networking technology in the Joint Tactical Radio System, mobile ad hoc networks, advanced speech recognition, the military's Boomerang mobile shooter detection system, and quantum cryptography. BBN is also the managing the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project office for the National Science Foundation.[citation needed]