Who Invented the Internet? And Why?
Nuclear war, cat gifs and reddit? Wait, what? Who was the genius who came up with all of that? The internet is such a crucial tool in our daily lives today that we hardly remember that it...
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So, have you ever wondered who actually invented the internet? Some people have become zillionaires thanks to the internet. But all they did was invent clever ways of using the internet. So the person who “invented the internet” should be a gazillionaire equivalent to, say, God, shoudn't they? Who should get the credit, then? Was it a British geek in a Swiss underground lab? Maybe. Clever Americans threatened with nuclear annihilation by the Russians? Nice idea. French scientists who decided to call their computer network the “Le Internet”? Interesting. Or was it thanks to a myriad of smart scientists working on something they knew was useful, but didn’t realize would be so big? Well, let’s try and get some facts straight. There’s the i...
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So, have you ever wondered who actually invented the internet? Some people have become zillionaires thanks to the internet. But all they did was invent clever ways of using the internet. So the person who “invented the internet” should be a gazillionaire equivalent to, say, God, shoudn't they? Who should get the credit, then? Was it a British geek in a Swiss underground lab? Maybe. Clever Americans threatened with nuclear annihilation by the Russians? Nice idea. French scientists who decided to call their computer network the “Le Internet”? Interesting. Or was it thanks to a myriad of smart scientists working on something they knew was useful, but didn’t realize would be so big? Well, let’s try and get some facts straight. There’s the i...
