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The Internet !
For those with an interest in history or youngsters who think we have always had the interweb.
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For those with an interest in history or youngsters who think we have always had the interweb.
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For those with an interest in history or youngsters who think we have always had the interweb.
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In 1965, before Arpanet came into existence, an Englishman called Donald Davies had proposed a similar facility to Arpanet in the United Kingdom, the NPL Data Communications Network. It never got funded; but Donald Davies did develop the concept of packet switching, a means by which messages can travel from point to point across a network. Although others in the USA were working on packet switching techniques at the same time (notably Leonard Kleinrock and Paul Baran), it was the UK version that Arpanet first adopted.
Then of course later Tim Berners Lee came up with the concept of the world wide web much later and the way a browser would work from a protocol point of view.
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Arpanet got funded, because there was a requirement for messaging telecoms survivability, in the event of large scale infrastructure disaster. That pretty much means data packets routing, not ''circuit switching''. Regardless of particular implementations of the idea. Same goes for TBL, if it hadn't been hypertext protocol, there were many other possible variations on same idea .......
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there was a requirement for messaging telecoms survivability, in the event of large scale infrastructure disaster
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I agree with the first Twitter comment. I didn't get on the internet until the mid 80s, it's awesome to see what it looked like more than 10 years earlier.
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I agree with the first Twitter comment. I didn't get on the internet until the mid 80s, it's awesome to see what it looked like more than 10 years earlier.
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I take it you mean actually the internet and not just the nickname for the World Wide Web? The first website was launched in August 1991 according to the article in the link below.
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