30 June 2009
Who invented the Internet?
Posted by Cecilia under: Culture; Economy; Life; Science .
A search for the inventor of the Internet reveals several people who made major contributions to the Internet we know today. None of these people, however, claim to be the inventor of the Internet.
Here are some of the people who played a large part in the development of the Internet:
Leonard Kleinrock: published a 1961 paper about the idea of packet switching. Packet switching is the idea that groups of data can be “routed” from one place to another based on address information in the data.
J.C.R. Licklider: in 1962 he described an Internet-like worldwide network of computers which he called “Galactic Network”.
Larry G. Roberts: created the first long-distance computer networks in 1965.
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf: invented the Transmission Control Protocol TCP between 1972 and 1973. TCP describes a method to move data on the Internet.
Radia Perlman: in the 1980’s invented the spanning tree algorithm which allows efficient bridging between separate networks.
Despite claims that Al Gore invented the Internet, his involvement was only as a political supporter and came rather late in the scheme of things.
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