Chairman Of Icann And Creator Of Internet Visits Prime Minister Yingluck

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Tim Berners-Lee is the creator of the internet

No, Berners-Lee created the WWW, which is based on the internet... that the US Dept of Defense's DARPA created and set free into the wild... and WHO says taxpayer-funded R&D is a waste of money?

From Wikipedia:

"The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. The public was first introduced to the concepts that would lead to the Internet when a message was sent over the ARPANet from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), after the second piece of network equipment was installed atStanford Research Institute (SRI). Packet switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I at NPL in the UK, CYCLADES, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols. The ARPANET in particular led to the development of protocols for internetworking, in which multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of networks.

In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, and consequently, the concept of a world-wide network of interconnected TCP/IP networks, called the Internet, was introduced. Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when theNational Science Foundation (NSF) developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET) and again in 1986 when NSFNET provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations. Commercial Internet service providers(ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990. The Internet was commercialized in 1995 when NSFNET was decommissioned, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic."

Fair do's, many inventions and discoveries rely on previous work, perhaps most do. Arpanet is the neaderthal to the internet's homo sapiens. But Arpanet was basically a university-based system and it wasn't until Sir Tim invented http and www that we were able to truly say the internet had arrived.