[Air-L] 'MEN Invented the Internet'?

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Doubtful anyone knows who Heddy Lamar is anymore, but I do agree in general with your statement.
Many people contributed to what we know as the internet, including the bbsers and phone phreakers who expanded on its usage.

-Sharon Greenfield
Ethnographer
Portishead Research LLC

On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Jeremy hunsinger wrote:

> other than the gender bias issue... which i agree is just distasteful
> and untrue.
> 
> the other real problem with the title is the term invented.
> 
> no one invented the internet.  a great number of people contributed to
> early networking technologies, and eventually someone named a protocol
> inter-networking protocol.  so at best we have someone who named one
> operational parameter of the internet, but no one invented it, no one
> as best as i can tell from my readings aimed for anything like it is
> today until around 1996 when it became an object of commercial policy
> and by then... it really was an assemblage of operating protocols and
> networks that were quite old.  it isn't like ethernet, where we have a
> possible inventor at all.  for instance, who can name the famous
> actress who worked on on operational protocol for radio switching that
> we now use in 801.11 radio based internets?  you all know her... she
> didn't invent the internet, but she patented something very important
> to today's internet.
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