Curtieson wrote:
Everything is owned...people own naming rights to stars...and people own the internet. Ever hear of GoDaddy? They sell internet domains. Who did they buy them from?
And the internet was around before the 80s...what are you guys talking about???
The "internet" was first created when 3 people had computers that could talk to each other at the same time. (2 is just a dirrect connect, not really internet).
The WWW was a program for the internet, that put pictures and text and put useful things on computer screens. (oooOOOOooooo). The WWW was one of a couple programs that just won its own VHS/Betamax war.
I know that this is not the topic of this thread, but this is an interesting direction it has taken. This has caused ole’ Throck to come out from under his rock and delve deeper into the internet question.
Dldjros69, please ignore this post, as it contains information. Troll type information.
Curtieson, you claim “that everything is owned….and people own the internet.” I have to disagree with that claim.
The Internet, as we know it, is free for anyone to use. The important phrase I use is “as we know it.” I am not referring to restricted Government or Educational sites. No one person or group owns it.
This is from the Online Policy Group,
“While some governments guarantee the right to view, publish, and broadcast information on the Internet, many have laws and regulations that censor Internet free speech.” As far I can tell, the United States and Canada do not censor Internet free speech, and they guarantee the right to view, publish and broadcast information on the internet.
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=what+...h.htm
You ask, ”Ever hear of GoDaddy? They sell internet domains. Who did they buy them from?”
Here is the answer:
The National Science Foundation announced that as of April 30, 1995 it would no longer allow direct access to the NSF backbone. The National Science Foundation contracted with four companies that would be providers of access to the NSF backbone (Merit). These companies would then sell connections to groups, organizations, and companies.$50 annual fee is imposed on domains, excluding .edu and .gov domains which are still funded by the National Science Foundation
When was the internet invented?
The Internet actually had its beginnings way back in the 1950s when the space race with Russia was on. With all of the work going on, there needed to be some way to communicate with scientists and engineers in other locations so the work could be shared and double-checked.Several government engineers came up with the brand-new idea of packet switching, where the information to be exchanged between two computers is broken into "packets", which are then sent along the network and reassembled on the receiving computer. The first data exchange occurred between UCLA and the Stanford Research Center in October of 1969.
Up until 1992, the Internet was located at educational institutions and government facilities. It was called ARPANET, an acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. In 1992 the government began leaving the administration of this large network, and allowed commercial entities to offer access to the general public. At that point the Internet, as we generally refer to it today, was born.
Keep in mind that during the first few years this was not actually known as the Internet in the commercial world. In fact, very few people even knew it existed. Graphical interfaces, where you click on an icon, didn’t exist. To connect to the Internet you typed the address of the host computer into yours, and after it connected, you continued typing command lines to retrieve the data you needed.
The "soul" of the Internet – the idea that it is open and available to all – has remained true even though access to it has become commercialized. But everyone has access available through schools, public libraries, and other institutions, so there truly is access for all.
http://www.letusfindout.com/wh...ented/
More interesting Internet history reading:
Boutell.com
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/....html
FAQ Who invented the internet?
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ Internet Society
Ian Peter's History of the Internet
I’ll probably be criticized for spending more than three minutes researching this, but so be it.
And by the way, I was being sarcastic when I quoted Al Gore as being the inventor of the Internet.