Who invented the internet?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed Feb 17 05:51:05 1999

No but they were all steps in what makes the net what it is.

Doug wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Russ Blakeman wrote:
>
> > It's accurate as far as my recollection goes back and Klienrock was a
> > part of the team of ARPAnet.. Really though, all sorts of thing, to
> > include FidoNet and the old BBS's made up what we have today, each with
> > it's own unique contribution. The net is not the last I feel either,
> > it's just more popular than the others and more commonplace.
>
> I don't think FidoNet or any BBS system contributed much to the net.
> There were (are?) some gateways, but none of the protocols or conventions
> that are/were used on the net had any origin in BBS's.
>
> For the most part, the net gods and the BBS gods were two non-overlapping
> subcultures, but they started to mix a bit in the mid 1980's.
>
> I constantly run into people who seem to think the internet started around
> 1994 or so. They become incredulous when I tell them I've been using the
> net since 1980, and that people were using it 10 years before me.
>
> -- Doug
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