The invention of the Internet in the form it is known today – work not of one person. Many people worked on creation and development of the Internet. The idea of creation of a world wide web is attributed to Leonard Kleynrok, the American engineer and the scientist.
In May, 1961 Kleynrok published article under the name "Information Stream in Wide Networks of Communication". In 1962 the American scientist Licklider became the first director of Technical office of processing of information (IPTO) and offered the vision to network. Kleynrok and Licklider's ideas were supported by Robert Taylor. He offered the idea of creation of a system which began to be called later Arpanet.
This computer network became a prototype of a modern world wide web.
The first steps
In the late sixties the 20th centuries the Internet began to develop. In the summer of 1968 the working group under the chairmanship of Elmer Shapiro discussed issues how computer hosts can communicate among themselves.
In December, 1968 Elmer Shapiro together with Stanford research institute published the report under the name "Studying Parameters of Development of a Computer Network". This work was used by Laurence Roberts and Barry Vessler for creation of the final version of the specialized minicomputer (IMP).
Later the BBN Technologies company received a grant on development and creation of a computer subnet.
In July, 1969 the general public when the University of California, Los Angeles publishes the press release learned about creation of the Internet.
In 1969 the first switch and together with it the first specialized minicomputer is sent to the University of California of Los Angeles. The same year from the switch the first signal goes to the computer.
Emergence of e-mail
The first electronic message was sent in 1971 by the programmer Ray Tomlinson. The first message was transferred between two machines standing literally side by side. After successfully sent message, Ray Tomlinson sent e-mails to the colleagues, having explained how to send such messages.
The instruction for sending e-mail concerned that the sign "dog" separates a user name and the name of the computer from which the message is written.
So Ray Tomlinson became the creator of e-mail.
Other inventions
After creation of e-mail the scientists continued to think out new inventions.
In 1974 there is a commercial version of Aparnet which is called Telenet.
In 1973 the engineer Bob Metcalf offers the idea of creation of Ethernet.
In 1977 Dennis Hayez and Dale Heterington release the first modem. Modems become popular among Internet users.
The big contribution to development of the modern Internet was made by Tim Berners-Li. In 1990 he invented HTML code that very strongly affected appearance of the Internet.
The majority of modern web browsers came from the Mosaic browser. It is the first graphic browser used in a world wide web and created in 1993. His authors – Mark Andreessen and Eric of Bing.