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in my timeline the internet was created in the earlier days of the military to create a new secret more secure form of communication
I have NEVER heard that CERN, in any way, "created the internet."
The internet was funded to create a form of network communications that could still be used if the major communications hubs (cities) had been wiped out in a nuclear attack. The internet would bypass the hubs, finding alternate routes of communications, back when the entire thing was a hard-wired telephone system.
They started it as digital communications between mainframe computers on college campuses.
The HTTP programming for our modern internet addressing and data transfer was written by a Brit gentleman, whose name I can't recall right now.
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I have NEVER heard that CERN, in any way, "created the internet."
The internet was funded to create a form of network communications that could still be used if the major communications hubs (cities) had been wiped out in a nuclear attack. The internet would bypass the hubs, finding alternate routes of communications, back when the entire thing was a hard-wired telephone system.
They started it as digital communications between mainframe computers on college campuses.
The HTTP programming for our modern internet addressing and data transfer was written by a Brit gentleman, whose name I can't recall right now.
But the entire thing was funded by the U.S. DoD.