WHO IS THE OWNER OF THE INTERNET?

The Internet was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense
research facilities. Originally it was just email and FTP sites as well as the Usenet where scientists
could question and answer each other. It was originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency NETwork). The concept was developed starting in 1964, and the first messages
passed were between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT
had published the first paper on packet switching theory in 1961. Since networking computers was
new to begin with, standards were being developed on the fly. Once the concept was proven, the
organizations involved started to lay out some ground rules for standardization.

One of the most important was the communications protocol, TCP/IP, developed by Vint Cerf and
Robert Kahn in 1974. Robert Metcalfe is credited with Ethernet which is the basic communication
standard in networked computers.

Tim Berners-Lee perhaps specified technological applicability and / or linguistic construction of HTML
while working at CERN, is chiefly credited for the ease of use and wide public adoption of the web.
Here is his website: w3.org

Al Gore really did have a substantial part in the US legal framework and governmental issues related
to the internet He never said he invented it.

There wasn't just ONE person that invented the internet. It would be silly to say that. The internet is
just a way to view files and information that someone puts onto a server. The internet is just a way to
access the information.

Although there's a guy named Leonard Kleinrock who was the first person to write a paper on the idea
of packet switching which is essential for internet to work. He wrote this idea in 1961.

And here are a couple more people that were essential to what we call internet today without these
guys there wouldn't be The Internet.

Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed
the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern
Internet grew, in 1966.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the
modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. If any two people "invented the Internet," it was Kahn and Cerf -
but they have publicily stated that "no one person or group of people" invented the Internet.

Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows
efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks
like the Internet would be impractical.

In short, no one person owns the internet. The internet is divided into many companies, and each
company into further branches. The internet is basically a network of different companies, etc.

PACKET SWITCHING:
Packet switching features delivery of variable-bit-rate data streams (sequences of packets) over a
shared network which allocates transmission resources as needed using statistical
multiplexingor dynamic bandwidth allocation techniques. When traversing network adapters, switches,
routers, and other network nodes, packets are buffered and queued, resulting in variable delay and
throughput depending on the network's capacity and the traffic load on the network.
Packet switching contrasts with another principal networking paradigm, circuit switching, a method
which sets up a limited number of dedicated connections of constant bit rate and constant delay
between nodes for exclusive use during the communication session. In cases where traffic fees are
charged (as opposed to flat rate), for example in cellular communication services, circuit switching is
characterized by a fee per unit of connection time, even when no data is transferred, while packet
switching is characterized by a fee per unit of information transmitted (characters, packets, messages,
).
Packet mode communication may be utilized with or without intermediate forwarding nodes (packet
switches or routers). Packets are normally forwarded by intermediate network nodes asynchronously
using first-in, first-out buffering, but may be forwarded according to some scheduling discipline for fair
queuing, traffic shaping, or for differentiated or guaranteed quality of service, such as weighted fair
queuing or leaky bucket. In case of a shared physical medium (radio, 10BASE5 or thick Ethernet, ),
the packets may be delivered according to a multiple access scheme.

DEVELOPER OF JAVA:
Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming
language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is
intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that code that
runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another. Java applications are
typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless
of computer architecture. Java is, as of 2012, one of the most popular programming languages in use,
particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.
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Java was
originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since merged into Oracle
Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The
language derives much of its syntax from C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of
them.
The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were
developed by Sun from 1991 and first released in 1995. As of May 2007, in compliance with the
specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun relicensed most of its Java technologies under
theGNU General Public License. Others have also developed alternative implementations of these
Sun technologies, such as the GNU Compiler for Java(bytecode compiler), GNU Classpath (standard
libraries), and IcedTea-Web (browser plugin for applets).