Great American Invention

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Re: Great American Invention

@5Abi

Internet was “invented” in US as well.

Dr. Leonard Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message to pass over the Internet. He was listed by the Los Angeles Times in 1999 as among the “50 People Who Most Influenced Business This Century”.

Yes I agree with you that the idea of Packet Switching as compared to dedicated connection, was a great idea and this eventually led to the birth of Internet. This idea was borne out of the need to keep the communication in tact in the eventuality of nuclear war with U.S.S.R. But without the invention of Transistor, this idea wouldn’t have matured to the present state.