Who first envisioned the concept of the internet?

Question

I am curious as to the earliest known suggestion of the concept of the interned www. Was it a Science Fiction writer, a scientist, Nostradamus? (Lol). Thanks!

Answer 1

My only guess is Bill Gates, because he invented the computer, and it makes sense to me.

Answer 2

...those who wants to surf???!!

Answer 3

In the beginning there was DARPANET and ARPANET, developed by the government for communication and educational purposes.

Answer 4

Actually the military developed it as an alternative comand and control communication.  It was conceived as a way to retain communications as part of a survivability plan in the aftermath of a nuclear war.  

BTW, they discarded it after their study showed serious short-comings in the ways they intended to employ the system.

Answer 5

i do believe it was originally developed for military purposes

Answer 6

I'm just going off the top of my head so I can't give any names but I believe it was a few  scientists who wanted a way to exchange data so it could be convenient. (The idea, not the the people who had the technology to actually create it, which Stretch had answered on point!)

I think the first computer filled up more than one entire room, and it was located at a university (it still exists).

Also, here is an excerpt from the article I posted as a link below:

"Mr. Engelbart had an epiphany in 1950, in which he imagined what would decades later become today's Internet-connected PC. He set about building it. At the time he had no idea of how he would build such a machine, but it soon became clear that it would require a computer that did not yet exist."

Check it out: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...

Answer 7

Well if you ask him Al Gore started the internet (yes he did say that in a speech)  

Try checking wikipedia