wrote:

With all do respect: internet was not invented by the US military. Not
even close. Internet was developed by Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee,
who I believe lives in London.

Sorry, but you're completely wrong. Bob is right.

The Internet grew from ARPANET, which was a Pentagon project to develop
a robust network that could automatically route round damaged or failing
sections. Its secret is that it was a packet switched network rather
than circuit switched, like the phone. Packet switching was first
demonstrated at the National Physical Laboratories in Teddington, a
suburb of London.

The Internet dates from the early 80s and provided e-mail, file transfer
(ftp) and newsgroups as its initial services.

The World Wide Web, which Tim Berners-Lee developed at CERN, arrived
about 10 years later and is NOT "The Internet" - the Web is merely
another service that the Internet makes available.

I, and many others, were using the Internet before Berners-Lee had his
inspiration and can clearly remember the appearance of the first web
browsers - first Mosaic and Cello, followed by Netscape with MS and IE
bringing up the rear.


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