Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Who Really Invented the Internet?
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 23, 2012 | L. GORDON CROVITZ

Posted on 07/23/2012 7:06:51 AM PDT by Pharmboy

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 221-240 next last
It wasn't Al Gore.

This is a free piece at The Journal, so click through. Short, with some great facts.

1 posted on 07/23/2012 7:06:55 AM PDT by Pharmboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy

2 posted on 07/23/2012 7:10:19 AM PDT by Copenhagen Smile (What if Jesus comes back like that?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy

well, actually the internet WAS in fact a DOD thing. I remember when we first started using it; I was a Captain in the Army in the early 80s. It was very clunky and weird to use


3 posted on 07/23/2012 7:11:45 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Copenhagen Smile

HA! I should have anticipated that...that dude’s pic never fails to make me smile.


4 posted on 07/23/2012 7:12:04 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk

And you can say the DOD was heavily involved in creating the computer itself

But, it was private individuals who made it small enough and powerful enough and fast enought so that you could view porn at home


5 posted on 07/23/2012 7:13:54 AM PDT by Mr. K ("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

Judas Priest, I am a female and a very serious Catholic I am not viewing any porn, unlike most


6 posted on 07/23/2012 7:15:19 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy

“the idea of the Internet traces to Vannevar Bush”

So, in this case we CAN say, “Bush did it.”


7 posted on 07/23/2012 7:17:09 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy
"Government research created the Internet so that all companies could make money off the Internet."

I love that quote.

One of the top BS lines in history.

8 posted on 07/23/2012 7:17:36 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K; yldstrk
"But, it was private individuals who made it small enough and powerful enough and fast enought so that you could view porn at home"

I don't watch porn either, but this still made me guffaw. Its probably how many people do think about the 'net.

9 posted on 07/23/2012 7:18:36 AM PDT by Copenhagen Smile (What if Jesus comes back like that?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk

Read the article, it really was Bush’s fault!


10 posted on 07/23/2012 7:20:11 AM PDT by jurroppi1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy
Of course scientists had envisioned a future of global communications. However, what we think of today as the original DARAPANET was a specific DoD project FOR communications, specifically to allow dissimilar systems to communicate, as well as automatic "healing" of network communications, allowing the systems to "route around" outages. Back in the day, systems from different manufacturers, or even different lines within the same manufacturer could not communicate with each other. In addition to that, the design of the communications networks (what we know today as "layer 2 networks) did not allow for redundancy (until Radia Perlman's invention of "Spanning Tree") without all sorts of problems.

Of course there was no one "inventor" of the Internet, nor a single development that created it, however the original project by DARPA, and the protocols developed by BBN were what morphed into the Internet we all know and Freep by.

Mark

11 posted on 07/23/2012 7:22:34 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy
The crux of the biscuit:

"It's important to understand the history of the Internet because it's too often wrongly cited to justify big government."

A very interesting read, thanks!

12 posted on 07/23/2012 7:22:44 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk
But full credit goes to the company where Mr. Taylor worked after leaving ARPA: Xerox. It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. Researchers there also developed the first personal computer (the Xerox Alto) and the graphical user interface that still drives computer usage today.
This is my understanding of it. I've know about this from other sources for decades.
13 posted on 07/23/2012 7:22:53 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K
But, it was private individuals who made it small enough and powerful enough and fast enought so that you could view porn at home

It is amazing at just how many technical innovations and their implementation into common usage have been driven by porn.

And cats.

But mostly porn.

Mark

14 posted on 07/23/2012 7:24:57 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk
It was very clunky and weird to use

AutoVON?

15 posted on 07/23/2012 7:25:21 AM PDT by Roccus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy
EVEN if people say the gov made it, who funds the gov? Where does the money to fund said gov come from?

*** Even though we now borrow much of it, in the end, Americans who are private citizens will pay for it. In the end, no matter wht Obama and the Dems say, private citizens pay for gov, through money earned from business. PS- I did read the article...

16 posted on 07/23/2012 7:26:22 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama 07/22/12: "we all reflect on how we can do something about some of the senseless violence...")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy

SO.......Bush invented the internet....Vannevar Bush.


17 posted on 07/23/2012 7:26:33 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk

“In the early 80’s”

Yep, I remember that time. I built my first PC in 1982.

Ran with some really great techs then. Most of them worked for the labs near where I lived in NM.


18 posted on 07/23/2012 7:29:34 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pharmboy

In the mid-late 80s, when desktop computers became popular, BBS [Bulletin Board Systems] sprang up in all major cities. They included chat, downloads, forums. BBS’s connected home computers via a BBS center.

The ‘internet’ was not really available to the general public until about 1994. [My first experience on it was in late 1995. My first internet chat — in Fort Worth — was with a guy in Australia. I was in awe to be ‘chatting’ with someone half-way around the world in almost real time.]

ISPs and connection options blossumed during the next few years.

I recall that SWBell in Ft. Worth didn’t want to upgrade their telephone lines [residential Internet was dial-up, because cable TV providers had not entered the market yet]. SWBell official thought the internet was just a passing fad. In a couple of years (late 90s), the phone line connections were crowded — with landline phone, fax, and dial-up.


19 posted on 07/23/2012 7:32:51 AM PDT by TomGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Roccus

wow, yes, absolutely!!!!!!! I hadn’t thought about that word in years


20 posted on 07/23/2012 7:33:04 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 221-240 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson