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  2. List of Internet pioneers - Wikipedia

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    Donald Davies (1924–2000) independently invented and named the concept of packet switching for data communications in 1965 at the United Kingdom's National Physical Laboratory (NPL). [16] [9] In the same year, he proposed a national commercial data network in the UK employing high-speed switching nodes.

  3. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...

  4. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    [48] [49] He advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right: "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights." [50] Berners-Lee participated in an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He and 20 ...

  5. Who invented the Internet? Everything you need to know ... - AOL

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    The invention of the internet is considered to be Jan. 1, 1983, but the vision started decades before. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

  6. Vint Cerf - Wikipedia

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    A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, February 1993; Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 [108] Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,418,138; Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S. Patent 6,574,628

  7. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, [14] and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork. [15] Today, the term Internet most commonly refers to the global system of interconnected computer networks, though it may also refer to any group of smaller networks. [16]

  8. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.

  9. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    Mosaic was an immediate hit; [47] its graphical user interface allowed the Web to become by far the most popular protocol on the Internet. Within a year, web traffic surpassed Gopher's. [30] Wired declared that Mosaic made non-Internet online services obsolete, [48] and the Web became the preferred interface for accessing the Internet ...