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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Know any more fairy stories, you've got a vivid imagination, the internet had'nt been thought of then.
Walter.
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If you think about it, he might be joking.
However the internet does have a longer history than you might think:-
E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a
time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate.
Taken from wikipedia
This is just a short excerpt, but notice the date.
There are many more examples if you would care to take the time and look.
Merging the networks and creating the Internet
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TCP/IP
Main article: Internet protocol suite
With so many different network methods, something needed to unify them.
Robert E. Kahn of
DARPA and
ARPANET recruited
Vint Cerf of
Stanford University to work with him on the problem. By 1973, they had soon worked out a fundamental reformulation, where the differences between network protocols were hidden by using a common
internetwork protocol, and instead of the network being responsible for reliability, as in the ARPANET, the hosts became responsible. Cerf credits
Hubert Zimmerman and
Louis Pouzin (designer of the
CYCLADES network) with important work on this design