Who Invented the Internet? And Why? 

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Excellent video -- I haven't heard the term "packet-switching" used since I studied data communication (toward my Computer/Information Science degree some 27 years ago). The one thing the narrator missed, however, was that ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) was a US Dept. of Defense initiative. This agency researched and developed technologies (Hardware, software, network topologies, data encryption, data formats such as data framing, etc.) inevitably leading to what was then known as DARPAnet. Yes, one of it's main purposes was to allow any data communications to be preserved and received by to its intended receiver in case any part of the data communication networks were attacked (including nuclear) during transmission. This was performed by packet switching and multiple broadcasting of the data packets (frames). Basically, break up the message, send it out to multiple computers (aka "servers"), and then reassemble the messages at the receiving end (drop any duplicate packets if already received.) As a high end scenario; A message is sent via 5 separate network lines via multiple channels (or servers if referring to the computers) (ex. "A" "B" "C", "D", and "E").Message sent to those 5 locations, servers A and C and D are blown up. Since B and E survived the attack. The message can be then rebuilt at the intended receiver. Mission accomplished. ARPA and DARPA inevitably were split into 2 separate US Gov't agencies, but were merged back together (and several name changes of the agency between ARPA and DARPA beginning with Bill Clinton). So, in essence, although preservation of data networks under ?nuclear attack" was not a SOLE purpose of the then (D)ARPAnet, it was one of the MOTIVATIONS in which pushed DARPA's work in developing the network. The term "internet" was derived from (as mentioned in the video) Colleges and Universities to be able to share their info through the networks - but at that time it was a "private" network. It was not until the late 1980's when the network (internet) was opened up to public/commercial enterprises (hence the internet as we now know it today). Although the USA may not have been the sole "inventor" of the internet (and infrastructure), it certainly had very strong influence on how it developed. Good high level video, though.

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I do apologize for pointing out a small typo in such an excellent video, but at 3:32 the message from the computer in the lower right corner says 'Not that anyone *cars*'. I believe that should actually say 'Not that anyone *cares*'. Still a great video regardless :P

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To create something so complex... wow. Great video!

While this is a very well present video and I love all your videos. The story of TCP/IP deserved to be told. TCP/IP came from the US DOD model of network communication which was in direct contest with the ISO model. The DoD model won but every network engineer to date is taught both. Fun fact the ISO model used 128bit network address but they were told we'd never need that many address... 20 or so years later ipv6 was born and it is uses 128bit address. 😊

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It's kind of strange that this video skips over the whole American invention of the internet and then goes very in depth about some British guy coming up with the World Wide Web and some other French contribution to an already existing technology. It wouldn't be so strange if the video wasn't titled "Who Invented the *Internet*? And Why?"

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0:35 Shouldn't it be "L'internet"?

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It doesn't matter who invented it...I'm just glad it exists.

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5:56 I love the reference to the first ever Kurzgesagt video

Next video: "What is internet?" I really want to know, is it websites? E-mail? If we remove things like fb, yt, websites, what will remain?

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I kind of like the idea that no "one" person created the internet and that the world together created it. ^_^

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Google "who invented the internet" and you'll get Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf who are an American engineer and an American computer scientist, respectively. Not surprised that a Euro channel is a little biased toward itself.

I like that idea at the end; That the internet might be a natural evolutionary step from our need to communicate. It vaguely reminds me of the paperclip machine. The simple rule of making as many paperclips as possible leads to interplanetary travel and destroying worlds down to the atom. We seem to be doing the same thing to achieve our simple goal of gathering and communicating as much knowledge as possible.

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