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. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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