Reply To: Who Invented The Internet?

avhaben: Not true (well, mostly not). There is major machlokes as to which technological innovation represents the origins of the Internet. And even among those who say that packet-switching is the definitive technology, ARPAnet is still not considered the primordial Internet, because a) it wasn’t the first to use packet-switching, b) it was not premised on enabling long-distance communication c) it was not comprised of interconnected networks. The last two criteria are widely accepted as part of the definition of an internet. The most that can really be said about ARPAnet is that it was a milestone in the development of the Internet.