RE: Inventor of the Internet Technology / Father of Modern Day Ne tworking
No - Al Gore invented the Internet. (Sorry list - I couldn't resist.) -----Original Message----- From: Ehud Gavron [mailto:GAVRON@ACES.COM] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:28 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: GAVRON@ACES.COM Subject: Inventor of the Internet Technology / Father of Modern Day Networking My apologies for this non-op note. I was hoping to tap the wisdom of the collective. http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/ http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/keys.html Is there a person who invented the Internet, and is this person him? Cheers, Ehud
*I* invented the modern internet -- see RFC 2235, 1990 entry. The problem with the question is that by and large technical people are not "people people" and hate giving credit where it's due and, given a question like this, will mostly spout jealousy rather than doing the much smarter thing by celebrating those among them who have contributed and making sure their field gets their due accolades in public for their accomplishments. They're just not, as a group, prone to praising anyone but themself. So all this question will evoke in this crowd are these sort of shootdowns rather than the more positive and really completely cost-free and painless "oh yes s/he contributed greatly to the internet and should be noted for it!" -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*
Well, the question these days is who holds the patent on it? :-) On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Michael Medwid wrote:
No - Al Gore invented the Internet.
(Sorry list - I couldn't resist.)
-----Original Message----- From: Ehud Gavron [mailto:GAVRON@ACES.COM] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:28 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: GAVRON@ACES.COM Subject: Inventor of the Internet Technology / Father of Modern Day Networking
My apologies for this non-op note. I was hoping to tap the wisdom of the collective.
http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/ http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/keys.html
Is there a person who invented the Internet, and is this person him?
Cheers,
Ehud
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ] web@typo.org [Company Name Here] Network Engineer http://www.typo.org/~web/resume.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Wayne Bouchard wrote:
Well, the question these days is who holds the patent on it? :-)
IBM. Circa 1992, they patented every network that communicates with a wireless network, specifically mentioning TCP/IP. Oh, and they also patented a system of names indirectly referencing the location information, that is, DNS.... A fellow named Charlie Perkins, who at a Boston session in 1994 explained that at the time, he'd never heard of the IETF. WSimpson@UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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