Who invented the Internet?
Now this is something that has bugged me againa and again and again. Some one appears and pronounces that they invented the internet. I've heard so many people say it. From reports on the news to old unviversity professors. The latest people who have been saying it are the bloggers, (not including me) in a way blogging is a step to making more accessible to the non geeks in the world, but you could say that of myspace or one of the other million web inervations.
Now I remember my old professor saying he invented the internet, when he created a network between two machines back 15 years ago, his only claim was because of the distance and the lack of security.
Then their was 0800 club, who were basically hacker, who had years of history in the open source community. Which I suppose is a good claim, but like everyone else the whole community (usually the people boasting did fuck all) only donated to the whole, if I had to pick one I would probable go for The National Science Foundation which put the first TCP/IP wide area network together in 1983. But realy that was just a small step in what was something that evolved, by lot of people input, every single person adding a adapting it. So in a way I suppose I did make the internet. Horay me!
Ow, a little news on the work front.
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