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Posted on 12/31/2005 1:11:20 PM PST by 2Jim_Brown
CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Fifteen years ago this Christmas week, Tim Berners-Lee, an obscure scientist working in a European laboratory, invented the Internet browser, now a fixture of the digital economy, experts tell United Press International's The Web.
Sir Berners-Lee today still lives a simple professor's lifestyle, bicycling around town, as his browser was supplanted by the Mosaic browser developed by a college student, Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois, a few years later. Andreessen's invention led to the creation of Netscape, the Netscape Navigator and other technologies that enervated to the go-go 1990s run in investment in technology on Wall Street and the creation of millions of jobs and hundreds of Internet companies here and abroad, including now household-names eBay.com and Amazon.com. By Gene Koprowski
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Not really.
I'm SHOCKED! I'm STUNNED!
Actually, it was just continued evolution of other stuff going on like Usenet, BitNet, and so on. Remember Gopher and stuff like that back then?
Not true. A neighbor of mine introduced me to Gopher before then.
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The conceptual foundation for creation of the Internet was significantly developed by three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we thought about technology by accurately predicting its future:
* Vannevar Bush wrote the first visionary description of the potential uses for information technology with his description of the "memex" automated library system.
* Norbert Wiener invented the field of Cybernetics, inspiring future researchers to focus on the use of technology to extend human capabilities.
* The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference crystallized the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences.
* Marshall McLuhan made the idea of a global village interconnected by an electronic nervous system part of our popular culture.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, triggering US President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPA agency to regain the technological lead in the arms race. ARPA appointed J.C.R. Licklider to head the new IPTO organization with a mandate to further the research of the SAGE program and help protect the US against a space-based nuclear attack. Licklider evangelized within the IPTO about the potential benefits of a country-wide communications network, influencing his successors to hire Lawrence Roberts to implement his vision.
Roberts led development of the network, based on the new idea of packet switching discovered by Paul Baran at RAND, and a few years later by Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory. A special computer called an Interface Message Processor was developed to realize the design, and the ARPANET went live in early October, 1969. The first communications were between Leonard Kleinrock's research center at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Douglas Engelbart's center at the Stanford Research Institute.
The first networking protocol used on the ARPANET was the Network Control Program. In 1983, it was replaced with the TCP/IP protocol developed by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and others, which quickly became the most widely used network protocol in the world.
In 1990, the ARPANET was retired and transferred to the NSFNET. The NSFNET was soon connected to the CSNET, which linked Universities around North America, and then to the EUnet, which connected research facilities in Europe. Thanks in part to the NSF's enlightened management, and fueled by the popularity of the web, the use of the Internet exploded after 1990, causing the US Government to transfer management to independent organizations starting in 1995.
And here we are.
Good 'ol days with a 3.5 k modem connecting to a BBS...ok, they weren't that good. Pretty bad actually. Splitting up text/help files for easier downloads.
So was I, but that was back in the mid seventies and she was from a different high school.
I guess they are just talking about the 'Dubya Dubya Dubya Dot' part of the Internet.
LOL - reminds me of Leslie Nielson -
"Nice beaver!"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed."
BTW I received training in the use of DARPA net which was designed to be an emergecny backup a in a nuclear war where our telecommunications infrastructure would be "messed up".
This was while Algore was still in Viet Nam staring down the barrel of his M-16!
couldn't let that one pass, could you?
Guilty as charged.
World Wide Web maybe, which brings most computers to their knees. In the old days even an XT clone would fly through the Internet, including such searches as Google does now for $ billions.
Have a good next year!
I always thought that it was Samual Morse who invented binary communications utilizing electricity .... perhaps ol' Samual could've been the 'Father of the Internet' ......
Al Gore was a photographer for the 20th Engineers, and it is really hard to find any pictures during the time he had that MOS- so don't think he was looking down the barrel of his M-16 a whole lot- or looking through the lens of his camera either; which is what he was supposed to be doing.LOL
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