Who Invented the Internet?

First of all. There is no one or a certain person who invented the internet. Internet is invented when visionaries thought that one day, computers will communicate with each other. The real fact is, there are only some people who improved it. Or used it for information, one of them is Vannevar Bush.



Vannevar Bush was a man on the Defense Research Committee during World War 2. Bush invented an automatic device that could manage information. It was something like a computerized library. He called this theoretical machine the memex. It was not really a group of computers. It was more on conceptual approach on information problems. But his ideas will also become an inspiration to future scientists to build real memex device.








But Vannevar Bush's ideas was picked up by another man whose idea also became an inspiration to visionaries build the ARPANET. It was J.C.R Licklider. He called his idea the Intergallactic Network.








The first big steps in building the Internet stemmed from the project called ARPANET. The project was funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). The project is to build a technology that could support computer even if the other computers are composed of different computers softwares. Before ARPANET, computers can only connect if they are identical.




The project manager of the ARPANET is Larry Roberts. He created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the ARPANET.

Ray Tomlinson invented the network E-mail and introduced it in 1972. The E-mail was the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.

Robert Kahn (left) and Vinton Cerf (right) developed the TCP or the Transmission Control Protocol and which is now used to move data to the modern Internet.

Robert Metcalfe invented the Ethernet which is the basic communication standard in networked computers.

   

Jon Postel (left) and Paul Mockapetris (right) introduced DNS in 1984, DNS or the Domain Name System is used to convert a computer's host name into an IP address on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee developed the HTML in 1990 and introduced the WWW on 1991. The HTML or the Hyper Text Markup Language, is used to create web pages. It is a means for being able to convert any document on a simple word processor into a file viewable on the internet. The WWW or the World Wide Web is a large number of different kinds of files all over the world that are linked with each other.