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In
the 1930s Alan Turing first described the computer--
Many people--let's not pick on Al Gore here--deserve
credit for creating
the Internet, which began in 1969 as a network of university computers
and began to take off in 1974 when
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn published a
protocol that enabled any computer on the network to transmit to any
other. |
A companion protocol devised by Tim Berners-Lee in
1990 created the World Wide Web, which simplified and popularized
navigation on the Net. The idea that anyone in the world can publish
information and have it instantly available to anyone else in the world
created a revolution that will rank with Gutenberg's. |
