Who invented the Internet?

 The Internet is familiar to everyone. We know that it is difficult to survive without them. But, have you ever had thoughts on who invented the internet?


A short history of how the internet was born.

Lawrence Roberts and Leonard Kleinrock worked together in the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in America. Roberts was the first to connect two computers by developing the packet-switching network in 1969. By using this, Kleinrock was able to transfer data to another site. This is how the ARPANET was born.

“Bob Kahn” and “Vint Cerf” are the ones who developed the TCP/IP in 1974. American computer scientists developed this set of protocols governing how data moves through a network. Vint Cerf has the credit of the first written word ‘The Internet’.

When asked to explain my role in the creation of the Internet, I generally use the example of a city. I helped to build the roads—the infrastructure that gets things from point A to point B.

-Vint Cerf, 2007

No one invented the internet. It grew gradually as networking technology developed and the descendants were involved more in the research and paved the way for the web to connect millions of people worldwide today.

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