Home of Anti-matter and the WWW?

I was looking through that website, and the "organization" takes credit for creating the internet. That seems a little bit sketchy to me. Tim Berners-Lee is the man credited with "inventing" the internet, but all he did was take a US military network, and apply it to the mainstream. CERN claims that the web "was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world." That's just not true. It might be different if CERN just said something like "yeah, we helped create mainstream internet," but they take complete and utter credit for it, calling it one of their organization's "Greatest Achievements."
It was originally "concieved" by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. According to the Internet Society "In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. The objective was to develop communication protocols which would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks. This was called the Internetting project and the system of networks which emerged from the research was known as the "Internet." The system of protocols which was developed over the course of this research effort became known as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, after the two initial protocols developed: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP)."

Click on the Internet Society link to read the acutal history of the internet.
 
I think they claim to have invented the World Wide Web, not the internet.
 
The CERN people might say that's all American Propaganda and a popular misconception.

(Meanwhile CERN scientists secretly do more advanced research, taking away any technological edge away from the Americans and eventually taking over the world with supergizmos. Then, being Swiss, forcing us all to drink more wine and eating more cheese and chocolate for a longer life. Damn them!)
 
The wine and chocolate plan sounds good.

Back to issue, I think the Americans developed another aspect of the internet, the "core", while the people at the CERN developed a huge improvement to it, the www protocol.

*grumbles* Pretty rude to call the people at the CERN Iraqui information ministers *grumbles*
 
I knew the part of the anti matter, it was a big issue in the swiss newspapers back then, (though they couldn't use it for anything, they couldn't even blow up an rabbit), but the 'we created the www' thing is new to me. Beside, you know, swiss people love to say they invented something.. serious there are some that claim switzerland has invented democracy.. :)
 
Wooz69 said:
I think they claim to have invented the World Wide Web, not the internet.
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That's the same thing, isn't it?

And Welsh, as to the "American Propaganda" thing...its not propaganda. It is a proven fact that the US Military developed what has become known as the Internet. Read up on that ISOC website. That organization is made up of over 180 countries, and they all agree.
CERN just appears to be taking credit for something that had no real part in.
Its like Al Gore claiming he invented the internet.
 
Shit...alright.. I did some more research on this.
Tim Berners-Lee apparently invented the World Wide Web, which is a way of accessing the Internet through means like browsers. He did this while working at CERN, but from what I've read so far, its not clearly defined if it was a CERN project. The internet had already been invented by the time the Web came around, and it was invented by the US Military.
 
Time to take out your network history manuals, people...Lemme see if I can find mine..It had all the dates and information from the dawn of "computers connected to each other."

Bah..I can't find that book. All I could find were some old programming VB3 and C books. But keep looking..The internet goes way way back...


Okay..I did a 2 second Google search. Found exactly what I was looking for.

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

Dates and names there coorelate with what little I remember from my networking class a few years back.
 
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