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The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, February 1993; Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 [110] Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,418,138; Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S. Patent 6,574,628
As of 2019, 90% of adults in America use the internet, either irregularly or frequently. [4] The United States ranks #1 in the world with 7,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) according to the CIA. [5] Internet bandwidth per Internet user was the 43rd highest in the world in 2016. [6]
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
Al Gore is a United States politician who served successively in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and as the Vice President from 1993 to 2001. In the 1980s and 1990s, he promoted legislation that funded an expansion of the ARPANET, allowing greater public access, and helping to develop the Internet.
Sally Floyd (1950–2019) was an American engineer recognized for her extensive contributions to Internet architecture and her work in identifying practical ways to control and stabilize Internet congestion. [208] She invented the random early detection active queue management scheme, which has been implemented in nearly all commercially ...
Following a 1999 CNN interview, then-Vice President Gore became the subject of some controversy and ridicule when his claim that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" [15] was widely quoted out of context or misquoted, with comedians and the popular media taking his expression as a claim that he had personally invented the Internet.
[48] [49] He advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right: "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights." [50] Berners-Lee participated in an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He and 20 ...