On 20/11/2010 11:27, RussellMc wrote:
>> M: it was invented by an English guy "Tim Berners Lee"
> Wasn't it Al Gore ... ?
Tim invented Hypertext (sort of, there was and is Project Xanadu)

Nobody really invented the Internet as it doesn't exist. The Internet=20
was around quite a while before web pages. I'm sure I sent emails on it=20
in 1988 on the "internet" via Dialup to X.25 pad, then X25 to london BT=20
Gold and then  Gateways to various services.

BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981. I=20
think Bitnet and Arpanet interworked. Somehow.

Arpanet proposed by Bob Taylor, in a sense in 1960s (Xanadu is that old=20
too!)
1970s it started to grow.

Nothing to do with Al Gore.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium,=20
wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the=20
World Wide Web.

Xerox or someone like developed Networking sort of as we know it (there=20
where other kinds)
And Arpa, the predecessor to DARPA realised it could be used with=20
routers to interconnect networks.

So there is nothing to "Turn off" or "Block". You can only turn off or=20
block individual networks. Long ago it escaped from Arpanet as people=20
made connections to other people.
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