The Internet was not created by just one person but developed through the contributions of multiple scientists and engineers over time. Key contributors include:
- Paul Baran, who proposed a distributed communication network without a central point in the 1960s.
- Lawrence Roberts and Leonard Kleinrock, who worked on the ARPANET, an early packet-switching network that was the foundation of the Internet.
- Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who developed the Internet protocols TCP/IP that allow different networks to communicate with each other. This is considered by many as the birth of the Internet on January 1, 1983.
- Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, which is a layer on top of the Internet that made it easily accessible and useful, creating the web browsers, URLs, and HTML.
Thus, the Internet was a collaborative evolution of networking concepts and technologies by several pioneers rather than a single inventor.
