<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Ian Peter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px; ">The Internet was invented simultaneously in several countries as a cooperative effort ... . The sole invention of the Internet in the Arpanet computer time sharing experiments sponsored by the US Government is a convenient myth – Louis Pouzin’s work in France, Donald Davies’ work in UK, the private enterprise work conducted by John Schoch and others at Parc Xerox Labs, all of these have equally credible claims to the origins of the Internet. There are a few other more indirect claims as well which various historians are now beginning to write up. I have an out of date paper on this at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html">http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which I hope to revise one day as there are many omissions there.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div><div>Ian - </div><div> </div><div> By your four criteria outlined in the paper (connection between networks, </div><div> involving computers, involving humans communicating with each other, </div><div> and an actual event), could you please indicate what event you feel meets</div><div> these criteria and therefore qualifies as the "Invention of the Internet? You</div><div> outlined how several do not qualify by these criteria, but do not identify any</div><div> event which does.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div></div></body></html>