Who really invented the internet? - Because YouTube told me it was the French

[Rabidcolombian]

The internet may be the greatest invention in history, so I have a patriotic stake in this.

Did American's, for the most part, invent the internet?

This video pisses me off

It fails to mention TCP/IP protocols, which is practically what makes the internet possible, which was invented by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, both Americans. It ignores almost completely ARPANET.

Please don't sugarcoat the answer, I really do want to know. Also, who do you think was the real MAIN guy who invented the internet.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

OK you can stop spamming threads in here now.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

I kind of think if it wasn't for tim berners lee, normies (that is, non computer scientists, academics, government agents) wouldn't care about the net.
It would still be here, but almost impossible to navigate, and almost impossible to upload content onto.
Not only would it be hard to use, but there would be almost no content on the internet. Do you remember internet content from 1976 to 1986?

 

[BingBong]

I kind of think if it wasn't for tim berners lee, normies (that is, non computer scientists, academics, government agents) wouldn't care about the net.
It would still be here, but almost impossible to navigate, and almost impossible to upload content onto.
Not only would it be hard to use, but there would be almost no content on the internet. Do you remember internet content from 1976 to 1986?

I wouldn't necessarily call that a bad thing.

 

[break these cuffs]

Al Gore

 

[Foxxo]

Al Gore

Gyah, beat me to it!

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

>What if the internet always existed?

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Al Gore invented the stored-program computer, hence the term Al Gore Rhythm.

 

[Never Scored]

I kind of think if it wasn't for tim berners lee, normies (that is, non computer scientists, academics, government agents) wouldn't care about the net.
It would still be here, but almost impossible to navigate, and almost impossible to upload content onto.
Not only would it be hard to use, but there would be almost no content on the internet. Do you remember internet content from 1976 to 1986?

I think your average internet sperg like most of us here would be bouncing between BBSes. I dunno. It might have been fun.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

I think your average internet sperg like most of us here would be bouncing between BBSes. I dunno. It might have been fun.

Usenet had some interesting groups. Also, censorship was completely impossible there, unlike the modern, megacorp dominated, Internet. And you didn't need an always-on connection, just sync once a day.

 

[Faber]

Did American's, for the most part, invent the internet?

Hello, I am a Eurofag who doesn't particularly like Americans and is exasperated by their tendency to (a) be extremely full of themselves and (b) constantly take credit for other nation's accomplishments.

Americans did, for the most part, invent the Internet.

Virtually everything that created the internet (the TCP/IP protocol stack, etc.) or that made it interesting (telnet, email, FTP, etc.) was originally envisioned and implemented by Americans. In fact, much of it was originally developed specifically on behalf of the US government, with US government money, or by people working for the US defense industry.

if it wasn't for tim berners lee

I have no doubt that Berners Lee was a highly competent coder and I don't want to diminish his accomplishemt, but all things considered he was basically just the guy who was in the right place at the right time. He is a Columbus, not an Einstein. Good at his job, yes. Visionary, also yes. But in the end, his work is a semi-obvious continuation – an incremental improvement on – stuff started by others. The basic paradigm of the web, hypertext, was first envisioned by Vannevar Bush, an American. The HTTP protocol was kind of a logical next step once we had Gopher and Veronica, written by Americans.

Also, who do you think was the real MAIN guy who invented the internet.

There really, genuinely was no main guy who invented the internet. If you want to be accurate, the internet was gradually pieced together by a massive dogpile of US computer scientists and US defense industry engineers. If you want to be pithy, the internet was invented by, well, America.

 

[HeyYou]

There are a lot of things that spergs claim America invented that we didn't actually invent. However, we can fairly take credit for this one.

 

[Rabidcolombian]

OK you can stop spamming threads in here now.

....2?

I'm so sorry - my austism is just out of control.

 

[Recoil]

I think your average internet sperg like most of us here would be bouncing between BBSes. I dunno. It might have been fun.

BBS's were a shitload of fun, they just raped your phone bill.
With better billing structures in place? I'd sign on for a stint in BBS only world.

 

[Dysnomia]

There are a lot of things that spergs claim America invented that we didn't actually invent. However, we can fairly take credit for this one.

As a 'Murrican I love feeling smug about this.

I read Australia invented wi-fi though. And I love me some wi-fi.

 

[Rabidcolombian]

There are a lot of things that spergs claim America invented that we didn't actually invent. However, we can fairly take credit for this one.

For the most part, I think we didn't invent the most basic things but we did make them better and they would look incredibly different today if we hadn't done anything. A German invented the car, but an American made it affordable to own one. (Correct me if I'm wrong).

The Concord is a great British invention, but no one could afford to go on it, making the product almost a footnote in history and useless.

A product also needs to be available to the layman if it's to make an impact in history.

 

[c-no]

A product also needs to be available to the layman if it's to make an impact in history.

This is one of the ways something does get a spot in history if it wasn't given wide use in say a war. Quoting an Aussie acquaintance but the internet itself at least did start off as something from the US military. Were it not for the things that made it available to the civilian market and general public, what the military had would of been confined to them.

 

[HeyYou]

For the most part, I think we didn't invent the most basic things but we did make them better and they would look incredibly different today if we hadn't done anything. A German invented the car, but an American made it affordable to own one. (Correct me if I'm wrong).

The Concord is a great British invention, but no one could afford to go on it, making the product almost a footnote in history and useless.

A product also needs to be available to the layman if it's to make an impact in history.

Americans have invented a fair amount of things, there's a few wikipedia pages on it. But you are right. For instance, we really didn't invent helicopters or submarines. But we did show the value in using them.

 

[AnAccount]

I think the soviets almost created some bootleg russian computer network called OGAS before the internet was a thing

 

[c-no]

I think the soviets almost created some bootleg russian computer network called OGAS before the internet was a thing

From what I recall, they were onto making it until it got shot down thanks to not getting the funding it needed. Had the Soviet government given it the funding it needed, the Russians could of been making his own shitpost long before we did.