How can somebody "invent" the internet?

[Alex]

Somebody COULD come up with a network standard and create their own network with wires, but anybody can do that (with money). The idea of hooking up computers is the same as the idea of hooking up a HHD to a motherboard. So how can one be considered the inventor of it all?

[Denica]

A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today. Below is a listing of several different people who have helped contribute and develop the Internet.
The idea

The initial idea is credited as being Leonard Kleinrock's after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.
In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider became the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. In addition to ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network that later became ARPANET.
Initial creation

The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960's.
In the summer of 1968, the Network Working Group (NWG) held its first meeting chaired by Elmer Shapiro with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with attendees: Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton. In the meeting, the group discussed solving issues related to getting hosts to communicate with each other.
In December 1968, Elmer Shapiro with SRI released a report "A Study of Computer Network Design Parameters." Based on this work and earlier work done by Paul Baraon, Thomas Marill and others; Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler helped to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) was later awarded the contract to design and build the IMP subnetwork.

[Sum Ting Wong]

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[Boss]

Link: http://uk.ask.com/question/why-did-they-...e-internet

[FUBAR]

hello, it's well known that al gore invented the internet