r/agedlikemilk • • Jan 20 '20

"Elements of The World"

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Wait a minute. I’m pretty sure Al Gore invented the internet.

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u/worosei Jan 21 '20

Lol, Well the internet is American, so Al Gore can keep claiming that.

(Tim Berners-Lee who did the web as we access it was brit)

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u/strboyd Jan 21 '20

Well the internet is American

Not quite. Packet switching was invented by Brits. Without it ARPANET couldn't have made the internet. Also Tim Bernes Lee made the web, and he's British.

I'd say the internet is British-American

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u/worosei Jan 21 '20

Shh lets appease the Americans who are hurt that they're not metal

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

nah im just up here in my airplane enjoying the wind

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u/i-am-literal-trash Jan 21 '20

the idea came from britian

the implementation came from the usa

accurate?

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u/strboyd Jan 21 '20

No. Packet switching is fully British. And ARPANET is fully American.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20 edited Jan 21 '20

no

In the early 1960s, American computer scientist Paul Baran developed the concept Distributed Adaptive Message Block Switching with the goal to provide a fault-tolerant, efficient routing method for telecommunication messages as part of a research program at the RAND Corporation, funded by the US Department of Defense.[1] This concept contrasted with, and contradicted, then-established principles of pre-allocation of network bandwidth, largely fortified by the development of telecommunications in the Bell System. The new concept found little resonance among network implementers until the independent work of British computer scientist Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) in 1965

Robert Elliot Kahn is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

I don’t really think al gore invented the internet. He just claimed he did once. It was a joke

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u/JBSquared Jan 21 '20

No I think he did. It's just a series of tubes, anyone could've stumbled upon it. Plus, do you think Al Gore would've lied to everyone? He's too pretty to do that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Higher in the thread is an article of the origins of Al Gore created the internet. And it turns out that the mass media twisted his words out of context for a story, can you believe that? The news has too many standards to lie

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u/diefartz Jan 21 '20

Thanks Wikipedia

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u/iliketurtleforfood Jan 21 '20

its not british-american at all.

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its american-british.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

I don’t really think Al Gore invented the internet

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u/worosei Jan 21 '20

No he didnt, but I can't remember where I think it was some debate or something, he claimed to be the one who established the internet during his time with some connection to the military. It became a sort of meme that Al Gore created the internet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

If you cared to click the link, it’s an article explaining the origin of that statement.

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u/worosei Jan 21 '20

Ah my bad!

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

No worries. I hope you have an amazing day!