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Originally Posted by Chris T
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Tim Berners-Lee didn't invent the internet. He invented the worldwide web (in 1992), which is just one of the many things you can do with the internet. The internet pre-dates the WWW by 33 years and was invented by a bunch of American universities funded by a US Government agency called ARPA. 
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Whilst you are correct in informing the audience that Tim did not invent the Internet, it should be noted that he actually invented the World Wide Web [WWW] whilst at CERN in 1989, and not in 1992 as your pedant suggests. Your suggestion is based upon the assumption that the Internet was created in 1959 [1992 - 33], when in fact the ARPANET was not actually created until 1969 - when Bolt Beranek & Newman delivered the first IMP packet to UCLA. The ARPANET was after all only conceived to be feasible in 1968. Furthermore, it was 1978 that the Internet really emerged, upon the implementation of IP as a standard for Internet messaging. This means that the ARPANET predates the WWW by just 20 years, rather than the 33 years that you quote and the Internet predates WWW by just 11 years. However, Vint Cerf truly is the daddy...
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