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Originally Posted by El Diablo
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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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1992 was the year they released their work on the WWW ... it's a good a date as any, especially in brief discussion like this. As for the 'predate' - you got me, my dodgy maths. I knew it was 1969 but obviously I can't subtract
As for when the internet emerged, as opposed to just ARPANET, if you want to be a complete pedant I would say it was earlier than you suggest, in 1973. That was the year Khan and Cerf invented TCP, and it was also the year they demonstrated a solution to the so called 'inter-net' problem, by linking ARPANET and SATNET, and sending data between a computer in the back of a van in San Francisco and one at University College London. They themselves christened their technique, 'internetting'.
All that said, you have to set your start date somewhere (you could go for the invention of packet switching (1964), for example) and I think the first successful login to ARPANET in October 1969 is as good a start point as anywhere.
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