On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Doug wrote:
> I was searching the web for a picture of a Honeywell IMP (DDP-516), and I
> found one sitting on the home page of Leonard Kleinrock, self-proclaimed
> Inventor of the Internet:
> http://millennium.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html
He certainly has an interesting story for such a major contribution to
computing since I've never heard of him either.
Get this:
"In this work, he developed the basic principles of packet switching, thus
providing the fundamental underpinnings for that technology."
As far as I know the concept of packet switching was first described by
Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation (see a timeline at
http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/pioneers3.html. Interestingly enough
the name "Kleinrock" does not show up anywhere in this list).
But this guy certainly takes the liberty of practically taking full credit
for single-handedly inventing the internet.
How about this:
"More recently, Kleinrock has taken the leading role in the new technology
of Nomadic Computing and Communications; the idea is to create a
technology that will support the nomadic user in his computing and
communication needs as he travels from place to place."
This has already been pioneered by Steven Roberts and his BEHEMOTH (see
http://www.doitsports.com/biketour/tolman/nomad.htm).
Does this dude have an original idea?
This guy seems to like to take credit for stuff other people invented. I
hate guys like that. Maybe this is a scam web site like that one that was
posted last year about the one dude who purportedly single-handedly
invented the personal computer and the GUI (didn't that guy also claim to
have invented the internet?)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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