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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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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

wrote:
I typed something which I remembered from the past without
actually finding some more information about the subject.

Jacek,

If you're interested in technical histories, in this case of the
Internet, I recommend "A Brief History of the Future" by John Naughton.
Its a good, readable account by a technical journalist who has been
online longer than most.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

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Andrew Warbrick wrote:
At 17:48 31 August 2006,
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Bob,

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. He was even knighted
by the Queen so, he
is Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But this guy Mal is insinuating
that the US
military 'released' the internet and if you buy to
his story I don't
know what to think of it. He is using every time he
can, something
against us. Every time. Don't take my word for it.
Just look at his
previous postings, you can run a search with his name
in it and then
you can read his uneducated, arrogant postings referring
in derogatory
terms to the US. So, in conclusion his referral to
the US military as
to ' The greatest weapon USA military ever released
to the world the
Internet.' is aimed that us again and it is a cheap
shot.

Sincerely,

Jacek


Jacek,

With all DUE respect. The internet is a direct descendent
of the ARPANET created in the early 1970's by the US
'advanced research projects agency', later the 'defence
advanced research projects agency'.

Tim Berners Lee created the HTML document format (web
page format) and HTTP the transport protocol which
allows selection of files from web servers by URL and
carries the data for those files. Between them this
is what people call the World Wide Web. The Internet
was in existence nearly twenty years before the world
wide web and it was started by the US military. I believe
it was initially extended to US universities.

In summary Mal might have intended it as a 'cheap'
shot. But it was still the truth.

To All,

I received a several emails with a clarification for which I thank you.
I was angry at the Mal character, and still am, and in the moment of
spite I typed something which I remembered from the past without
actually finding some more information about the subject. So, I
apologize for my mistake, but not to Mal for he is taking a cheap shots
in the present as well as in the past.

Sincerely,

Jacek
Washington State


It is not a cheap shot it is a factual statement stated to me by a teacher
of information technology.

An even cheaper shot would be to call someone a Moron even worse a
uneducated Moron.

I am glad you can somewhat use the internet the power full tool that it is.

Pity you did not research your facts before your cheap shot.

Search for your Presidents IQ you will find he has the lowest IQ of all
Presidents not a cheap shot just a fact.

Tell me more on your conspiracy theory that an English man invented the
internet http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html.

Earlier, Mal wrote:

...Search for your Presidents IQ you
will find he has the lowest IQ of all
Presidents not a cheap shot just a fact.

Ah, Mal, we got ya there - that thing about Bush's IQ is a flat-out
hoax:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

So, maybe he can't pronounce "nuclear" to save his life, but at least
he's not provably stupid.

Thanks, Bob K.

he's not provably stupid.

That debatable

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prove /pruv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[proov]
Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, proved, proved or prov?en,
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-verb (used with object) 1. to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by
evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
2. Law. to establish the authenticity or validity of (a will);
probate.
3. to give demonstration of by action.
4. to subject to a test, experiment, comparison, analysis, or the
like, to determine quality, amount, acceptability, characteristics, etc.: to
prove ore.
5. to show (oneself) to have the character or ability expected of one,
esp. through one's actions.
6. Mathematics. to verify the correctness or validity of by
mathematical demonstration or arithmetical proof.
7. Also, proof. Printing. to take a trial impression of (type, a cut,
etc.).
8. to cause (dough) to rise to the necessary lightness.
9. Archaic. to experience.
-verb (used without object) 10. to turn out: The experiment proved to be
successful.
11. to be found by trial or experience to be: His story proved false.
12. (of dough) to rise to a specified lightness: Leave covered until
it has proved.

"Power full"?

"Mal" wrote in message
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It is not a cheap shot it is a factual statement stated to me by a teacher
of information technology.

An even cheaper shot would be to call someone a Moron even worse a
uneducated Moron.

I am glad you can somewhat use the internet the power full tool that it
is.

Pity you did not research your facts before your cheap shot.

Search for your Presidents IQ you will find he has the lowest IQ of all
Presidents not a cheap shot just a fact.

Tell me more on your conspiracy theory that an English man invented the
internet http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html.