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Brother Masoner:
> The actual *inventer* of the internet concept was some poor guy who 
had
> trouble remembering clients' names.

The Internet was a big gumment project.  It was the U.S. Department 
of
Defense ARPANET before it was the Internet, and it was developed in 
the
60's as a military network which could survive a nuclear attack
(supposedely).

By 1980, several commercial and educational networks had linked onto
ARPANET, and by then folks were calling it the Internet.  Ten years
ago, NSFNET was created with a 56Kbps backbone.  In 1990, ARPANET 
was
phased out.  CIX (Commercial Internet Exchange) was started to 
provide
commercial providers with access to the Internet.

ME:
Actually, brother masoner, what the brother/sister was refering to 
was the creation, not of the internet, but of a web page.  The 
ARPANET began as a Local Area Network between 4 computers of the U.S. 
Dept or defense.  It was to share the ability to access the same 
files from different computers so everyone working on the project 
could use the files.  When ARPANET went out and used telephone lines 
to access different buildings, it's popularity grew and as more 
people tapped in (after the cold war scare, of course), the goverment 
gave its permission to companies to market the service, as you said.  
However, this type of internet was only like a primitive email (send 
files to each other).  But it quickly developed after the "Poor guy" 
created an effecient way to share information and later to do it on 
the internet!  =<>  So you were both right!  :-) 

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