Who Is The First Inventor Of Internet?

The internet as we know it today was not  invented the by just one person. It was the combined effort of many people that began what we now use daily both for work and enjoyment.

In 1961 there was a man named Leonard Kleinrock and he published a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet.  This means that  packets of data can be routed from one place to another based on address information carried in the data.

In 1962 a  man named J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers. He called it the "Galactic Network." His discovery was almost accidental. What an exciting accident that turned out to be.

In 1965 Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the seed from which the modern Internet grew.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973.

From then on one person after the other added more technology, and improved the systems and almost daily something new was and still is added. It  is hard to  comprehend the capabilities of our computers today.

The Internet is one amazing thing and provides hours and even days of entertainment and work for almost everyone.

J.C.R. Licklider proposed that social inter communication can be allowed through networking. He gave the concept of "Galactic Network" in a series of memos written in August 1962 at MIT. He imagined a world wide network of computers through which everyone could quickly access information without any geographical constraint. This concept later developed into Internet, which we are familiar with.
Licklider became the head of the computer research program at DARPA, starting in October 1962. He also gave the idea of using packets rather than circuits in communication and wrote the first paper (1961) and the book (1964) on the subject "Packet Switching Theory". Usage of this idea, i.e. packets in communication was a mile stone in Computer Networking.

Another step in this regard was to enable intercommunication between the computers, i.e. how the computers will talk and understand each other. To accomplish this task, he worked with Thomas Merrill, Roberts and connected TX-2 computer with a low speed dial-up telephone line and created the world's first ever wide-area computer network. The result of the experiment proved the need for packet switching as the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate.

Leonard kleinrock

Leonard kleinrock

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. It was made available as Internet Service to the public on August 6, 1991. The first graphical point-and-click browser was called 'Mosaic'.