Who invented the Internet?

Who invented the Internet?

Ethan Feerst and Dylan Stewart (Technology Therapist, Mac Guru) gives expert video advice on: How does the Internet work?; What are some of the most common difficulties with using the Internet?; Who decides what goes on the Internet? and more...

There is no who. This was a collection of many scientists and academic institutions over a period of years. Partly the Internet is something that grew out of the Cold War and the fear that if communications was centralized, that command and control could be knocked out in one fell swoop. So the United States government created the Advanced Research Projects Agency directly after Sputnik. That turned into the ARPA Net; became part of the Department of Defense. Institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, MIT began to experiment with different ways of switching packets and sharing information for different kinds of academic research projects, and then protocols got standardized over a period of years and the World Wide Web came into existence, but I don't think there was any one Who.