How We Made the Internet
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- On March 9, 1999, U.S. Vice President Al Gore, made a statement during a campaign interview that, unbeknownst to him, would soon become the subject of somewhat humorous controversy. What followed were a bunch of newspaper articles, comic strips, and “memes” mocking the vice president, starting a new wave of political humor for his candidacy in the 2000 Presidential Election.
Ridiculous. Did Al Gore really just claim that he created the internet? Well, not exactly. What he had meant to say was that he was an integral part of putting forward legislation that made the internet so easily accessible and as powerful as it was in the 1990s. But because of his poor choice of words, naturally they were stripped of their context and even completely changed altogether. That answer wouldn’t be as interesting as telling everybody that Gore was bold enough to claim that he sat down, designed, and built the internet as a technology, all by himself. Gore’s lack of forethought with his remarks lead to an influx of embellishment and misinformation.
But what started off as mass media shenanigans ended up becoming a valid burning question: If Al Gore can’t take credit for creating the internet, then who can? Who Invented the Internet? Well, that’s a ridiculous question. I mean, obviously it’s Tim Burners Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web in 1989 and finally made it public in 1991. Clearly, he is the Founding Father of what we recognize today as the internet…right? Actually, no. There are so many things that we are taught in school as being “absolute truths”: Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, Ben Franklin discovered electricity, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But when it comes to a relatively recent technology like the internet, the answer is unclear. Who is our “guy” for the internet? Or “gal” even? As there are many women out there who could just as easily take the credit.
Deciding who is responsible for the internet has become a discussion of great debate. Depending on who you ask, the answer will be different but the reasons still just as valid. Perhaps the story behind who’s responsible is just as complicated as the invention itself, filled with so many moving parts that are only visible when seeing the big picture, and that includes a lot of US government intervention. If that’s the case, was Mr. Gore’s comment really that unreasonable? Could he unironically take credit for inventing the internet?
The reason why a question like this is so open-ended is because the internet itself is an open-ended technology. It wasn’t something that just appeared overnight. It was gradual and took literal generations to master. The internet is so complicated, that even we don’t fully understand it ourselves. We often use the terms “internet” and “world wide web” interchangeably, but they are very different things. In its simplest form, the “internet” is just a bunch of computers talking to each other, and the “World Wide Web” is the software we use to understand what those computers are saying. Now this may seem like some arbitrary distinction to make, I mean when someone says they “bought something on the internet,” we all know what they mean. But knowing the difference is crucial to understanding the internet and its history.
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@@NickLogoAbk2913 ratio + cope
@@justinianthegreatandnerd6377 it still happened
So I can’t say a company shut down when it acctually happen
@@NickLogoAbk2913 you broke the joke mate.
The "Gore bill" sounds metal as hell.
Hell yeah!!! 😅
People mocked Al Gore for his comment, but look at how tough it is to pass any meaningful legislation that betters public education and libraries today. He deserves kudos
fall guys 😀
Is it difficult, or do they refuse to pass any meaningful legislation?
@@lunarna It's difficult
It should be difficult to pass legislation. Way more difficult than it actually is.
@@lunarna those 2 ideas aren't mutually exclusive, it can be difficult BECAUSE they refuse.
As a socially awkward teen back then, I'd be a target of bullying/teasing just for my poor choice of words.
I feel you, Al Gore.
yeah i agree man bear pig turned out real
Nobody took him cereal
i see people of culture
Al Gore... A i Gore. A.I GORE. He's an evil robot I call it.
I mean he turned out to be right about climate change. Everyone made fun of him but he was right. Maybe we kind of owe him a collective apology.
I can't believe Al Gore single-handedly sat down and invented the internet. Amazing.
you better believe 'cause it's super cereal
Don't forget manbearpig.
he actually had no role in its creation. It existed well before he ever held office
@@ytgadfly didn't get the joke
I wish we had a president who was capable of that. Instead we have an entire government of 80 year olds who dont even use the internet. Especially not our last two presidents lol
If I remember correctly, Firefox was not a rebranding of Netscape. Rather, it was an different browser made by Netscape employees who left the company to start Mozilla. Great video, learned something new!
That’s right! I could have been more descriptive on that for sure haha. Thanks for the note and thanks for watching! :)
Mozilla Suite (including and email client and browser) was released after the Netscape code was open sourced. Firefox was not originally made by the Mozilla Foundation. It was a private code fork of Mozilla intended to be much faster and less bloated. I started using it when it was called Phoenix browser. This was then changed to Firebird and finally Firefox. It attracted users at such a speed that eventually Mozilla Foundation adopted it.
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@@nationsquid Haven't learned from Al Gore bruv
The same Nahtzees that fired the CEO because he disagreed with the Commie/Fascist huer Progressives that worked for him.
Thanks!
Learned so much about the history of the internet in 22 minutes than I knew all my life. Likely the best video in all of CZcams on this topic.
Wow!! Thank you so much for the contribution!! I really appreciate it!!! More content to come! 💙
Same here!
what do you term the contributory comment, super comment? is it that?
nice
@@rtxon69 if you press the "Thanks" button, you can leave a comment with a donation
not sure what’s the term for this type of comment tough
This is one of my favorite real life history stories, as someone who grew up on the internet it's always been so fascinating to me, although I'd admit that fascination has died in the last decade. Because of that it's always great as well to hear it again, and you did a great job as per usual in both your coverage and editing that I feel like I could share to people since it's not heavy into the complicated details. Thanks NationSquid.
I feel the same. As a 90s kid, I have memories of being so fascinated, and stimulated, by the influx of information and images/video made available. I learned html and css coding because I was obsessed with making websites just for the sake of it.
Not so much nowadays, but it's been amazing to gain more insight on the internet phenomenon
@@mrdiscophoria It's definitely had a lot of impact on my interests as well, I started out just messing with HTML and CSS but it evolved into my love for personal computing and technology in general. I'll be getting my associates in a comp sci course and plan on working for other certifications as well in the next coming years.
The reason the internet isnt interesting anymore is that is there isnt any more innovation because we have a system that works as well as it will ever get
You know it's top tier informative video when you learn more in it than in 5 years of IT high school and 3 years of IT University
What is an IT university? I have a degree in computer science from a real uni, and we covered all this.
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The invention of network address translation is also super important to I wish that was mentioned
@@Trollleben i mean consider that we did programming, only high school cared about the history of it itself, the teaching was good, they just thought it was not important to mention the origin itself but just how it works and what to make on it in uni, in high school a little bit of mention but just a few times just for curiosity
Simplified yet true to its original history. Well scripted and paced. Video editing is good too. I'm going to share this to a bunch of my peers! Keep going.
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What an amazing documentary. I'm a technology engineer student and this stuff fascinates me. Also my monke brain thinks, internet is just phones 2.0. crazy to think how much information the CIA and other governments sent 'over the wire' and then later how much of a huge backend the actual internet has
How monke make rock think? How monke make rock talk to each other? Grog scratch head.
@@TecnoTyler **confused unga-bunga**
Great video. NS really tackled a very complex topic and explained it so well.
Thank you so much for your support as always, Blake!!!! :)
The REAL internet was the friends we made along the way.
Copied, but always funny! :D
Maybe it's because I'm an introvert, but am I the only one that doesn't like this type of comment?
@@NightCloudI nothing wrong with the comment, it's an obvious joke.
As another introvert, I do get annoyed when people say the Internet made us isolated. No it hasn't. I've met most of my closest friends on the Internet.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Ikr, and for us introverts internet is a great way to spend fun time with a friend. We can watch videos and discuss or theorize about it after or we can play some online games. :)
Had “great gig in the sky” stuck in my head for the rest of the video after it played and it honestly kinda gave me some deep existential feelings, just thinking about how much technology has evolved in such a relatively small amount of time. Great video
Your content is always so clean and crisp and informative, really love it.
Man, the Cold War brought to us some wild stuff that we take for granted nowadays
This was so well made, respect and appreciation for another video this high quality!
Awesome content as usual man! This taught me SO much about the internet and your voice and style of narration and editing is super engaging and mesmerizing, along with the little jokes you throw in throughout your videos! You’re my favorite channel and I’m glad you’ve been uploading more lately :)
i totally agree. this guy is refreshigly unique and very informative.
TIL that it was willy wonka that invented the internet
Hahaha, leave it to beaver is so great!! This was an interesting video, as I always thought it was Tim Berners Lee. Thanks for enlightening me on the origins of the Internet! Again, great video as always, you just keep outdoing yourself!! I love that you have a turntable as well, I never knew you were into records!
Agree too
Thank you so much!! Yes, I sure love my turntable. Been using it a lot around the house! As always, more content to come! :)
@@nationsquid That's so cool! Dark side of the moon is always going to have one of my favorite album covers. Smooth UDP joke by the way!
@@nationsquid yay 😁
I loved how you highlighted how individual people can have such a big impact on the course of history. It’s crazy to thing about. Great video 😊
I enjoy your every videos, they give me enjoyment and education at the same time. By the way, I ended up getting the joke, because it was dropped off safely by the mailman. keep creating man, you are one of the few who gives me the old feeling of the simpler times
He didn't invent the Internet, no, but what he did was very monumental in driving the Internet forward for everyone to access.
He also warned us about global warming- people laughed at him- but we are seeing the effects of it now.
okay almost completely unrelated but i keep misreading al gore's name as artificial intelligence gore
The group that developed TCP/IP deserve the credit for pioneering internet.
Incredible video. Super ambitious but covers so many important developments clearly and succinctly. So far the video hasn't performed near as well as the others on your channel, but I wouldn't be surprised if it consistently gets views over a long period of time. It deserves that for sure.
This has to be one of your best videos yet! I have kind of dug into this topic in the past but really came out more confused. Growing up I didn't really question what internet was or how it came to be. Actually funny enough I remember when we got our first pc we referred to it as "the internet." We didn't use it for much else at the time.
Glad you enjoyed it!! More videos coming your way soon. :)
Man this channel is an absolute gem of interesting information. Keep it up!
Brilliant video brother ❤, loved it you made clear every single bit of ARPANET TO INTERNET very clear and with proper video cuts it is very much connecting and easy to remember. As you said in last
You are also making the internet insanely helpful and great for people around the globe.
Keep making these kinds of amazing stuff.
Loved your video❣️
thanks for this helped A LOT😂💯, if college classes could teach in the form of CZcams videos like this, I'm pretty sure more people would pass/understand the topic better but to each his own.
This video gave such a great recap/overview of what I studied in my networking courses 💕 The internet is so wonderful and complex, still hard to wrap my head around haha
This is one of only two channels for which I've actually clicked the bell. Excellent video as always.
Yup!! Same
Reminded me of the Jeremy Irons version of Spaceship Earth at Epcot. Great video!
@nationsquid - what an amazing job explaining a concept so complicated!
Amazing at the time, in 1995 we planned an entire 3-week trip, using MapQuest, online hotel reservations, and message boards. We even advance purchased tickets for a Cinema show in Dayton, OH. Nowdays thats the norm, but some of this tech was brand new and amazed people. As a side note, everything went flawlessly.
Another awesome video NationSquid. I could listen to you literally all day
Your videos are so underrated . Loved it.
i really enjoyed this video! I've been looking for something of thing kind in a long while.
Thank to CZcams for recommending
Poor Al Gore . The one time people take him cereal it was a poorly worded sentence.
I found this channel because the Goggle video was in my recommended and I watched it and then saw your other great videos and subbed and now you're my favourite CZcamsr!
Thank you for your support! More content coming your way! :)
Awesome video and I always thought about this. Hysterical jump scare at the end also.
Thanks for posting! A little light on some details, but a great video just the same.
18:46 internet service providers (ISP) did not charge long distance fees for accessing websites on the other side of the world. The video says that with a world spanning network, charging people long distance became a turn-off because you couldn't tell where a server was and would suddenly be hit with long distance charges until AOL came around and offered a fixed monthly fee. That's not what I recall at all.
What I recall is that we were charged per minute of connection. This sounds like long distance charges, but is not. You were simply charged whenever you were connected, even if you weren't downloading anything but preparing and email to be sent. And eventually it moved to a fixed rate for unlimited access. I think the script took what we all know of long distance charges now (and then), and got confused when they heard of pay by the minute charges and wild internet bills. But it had nothing to do with the location of the server. Only your connection time.
I did a quick search and couldn't find anything like that. If anyone can confirm that any ISPs ever did this, that would be great. I certainly don't recall ever hearing this when I had dial-up internet in the 90s as a teen, but I do recall the unlimited use being a promotional point for ISPs.
What I got from the sentence is what other people (general public) assumed and didn't understand - as they were used to only how phones work. You tell somebody in 1991 that you can "use your phone to connect to somebody across the world", they would assume you would be charged for long distance.
When AOL came in with its massive marketing campaign, they took advantage of this confusion, but also improved the billing system to be cheaper (assuming you use it enough) and easily understood.
I have faint memories of the early days of AOL (as in, I remember a time before people got AOL despite it being around at the time). My family was already using AOL and had been long before anybody else I knew (my dad used to code games and programmes so he was tech savvy at the time). I remember that we'd call my aunt in the evenings after a specific time because it was cheaper due to the package we had. One of my friends had only DOS on her family's computer for a long time and no internet. Another who was more well off got AOL before others. I do remember adult discussions of how it worked / how it charged etc - just like how I know it was cheaper to call my aunt after a specific time. I was very young at the time so I can't recall much other than the vague understanding that most people didn't understand the billing system outside of AOL.
I suppose it's like using data on pay-as-you go and being charged so much per X MB of data. You just have no concept of how much it will charge you until you check your balance (or in their case, the monthly phone bill)
I also remember the big ass beige boxes in the darkest corner of pubs where you'd put in a £2 coin to use it for 10 minutes lol
The high bill came from the fact that they charged you for usage by the hour but eventually went to an unlimited plan. The only long distance charge may have been if you used a local access number from a different location. Also Service providers such as AOL and Compuserve didn't originally provide internet service, they provided a connection to their private network. They also didn't use a web browser, they used proprietary software.
Amazing! Thank you so much for such an wonderful, informative video :)
What are the odds that I was just thinking of Great Gig in the Sky and you play it at 7:41 right as I’m internally listening to it. Did not except that in this video but it literally just made my day. Great content also.
Nation squad and magnatesmedia, both of your channels are so so underrated, I wish you guys grow , and I want to help in any ways I can
This is criminally underrated!
Edison invented light bulb? In parallel universe maybe....
I like this content, youve got a good neutral / relaxing voice........and the editing style doesnt have loads of kabooms, whizzbangs and wallops
Great video, I love this kind of short documentary, it's awesome your work, I just subscribed!
hearing great gig in the sky there immediately put a smile on my face.
Please tell me you're joking about Edison at the beginning of this vid.
For a subject so vast with information, thanks for taking the time to explain it in layman’s terms. I know you did your research 💯
Damn dude. Some high quality output great video.
Wow. This is basically the entire lecture of basic computer networking in under 30 minutes. 👏
Back in 1995 it was amazing to me that I could get in the internet with just my phone line and AOL and it only took 5 minutes to load a page. 🤯 😂
This is such a great tutorial. So many things have come together in my understanding.
that was such a good short documentary with intense info and easily given to audience thanks for sharing
The real creator of the internet is the friends we made along the way
Imagine being one of these people that helped create the internet and coming back to see what it’s become and it’s just people sharing videos of themselves eating ass online 🤣
If the internet is a whole bunch of computers connected to each other, then the inventor of the internet is the person who made the first connection between two computers
Absolutely great video on the history of networking! Thank you!
Hedi Lamar was a brilliant engineer, but didn't invented CDMA or WiFi. She invented what was called frequency hopping communication. The patent specifies using it to control torpedoes or drones (I really can't remember). This was used for a long time after, like in radars. But CDMA although is a broad spectrum system has nothing to do with it and WiFi can change channels but just sometimes for avoiding interference, so is not a frequency hopping system.
That thumbnail is a great meme
Ok
I was thinking the same thing
That was a really good Video thanks for that. And even though I now a lot of this it is still fascinating ^^
Great video. Put me down on getting on Florida St University BBS in 1995 on 300 baud modem.
Just so you lnow Al Gore never ever once said that he invented the internet. He said exactly "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." By that he meant legislation for the internet. Which is 100 percent true.
"I would tell you a UDP joke, but you probably wouldn't get it" ... dying.... said so straight faced people probably missed that little gem...
I have to just give you a thumbs up! For this video. It was really good and explained things very easy for me. Thanx.
best video about internet history. Thanks for the vid
Imagine how amazing it must have been to be a part of creating the internet. I feel like I would love my job everyday.
Al Gore may have invented it, but Timmy Turner inherited it
N Timmy Burners Launched It
@@NiteDriv3r Timmy burn these nutz
@@cdvideodump No
As a network engineer, all of this is my bread and butter. The simplicity and in depthness of your explanations is amazing! I got giddy when you mentioned STP! This is an amazing video
You deserve a lot more of subscribers!!
Now we need how the internet was ruined
Social media
I thought it was ARPA, since ARPANET was the first iteration of the internet we know today.
Nah bruh it’s Al gore
@@sultanofsaturn Bing, bong, sing-along; your team’s Al Gore ‘cause your views are wrong
Thanks. So Informative
What a great video! Very informative.
Saying that Al Gore invented internet is like saying that Newton invented gravity.
So, without Newton supporting gravity, it wouldn't be as strong as it is? Damn you Newton. I could have been bouncing like I was on the moon today.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." - Al Gore.
I like Gore and think he did a lot of good things like help more people access it, but he completely overstated his role in the creation of the Internet. How can one take "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" as anything but claiming something he didnt do? The Internet's creation took place well before he ever held any office.
I have used the Internet since the early 80s. Well before the web. Thank god people have made documentaries about the real engineers who created the Internet. They spent decades doing the real work. Why didnt Al Gore acknowledge them?
This channel is so underrated! How did I not find out about it before?!
We all know it was Al Gore, he's even said it himself in his iconic quote "I invented the Internet"
He said no such thing
@@Allen.Christian my uncle who works for Nintendo confirmed it
@@Allen.Christian He did, actually.
Simply watching the video before you stuff your foot in your mouth in the comments section is easy…see.
@@JSLeeds simply re-reading my comments before you stuff your foot in your mouth in my replies is easy...see.
To anyone who is interested in what he meant about the internet's two core data transmissions TCP vs UDP protocols:
TCP is the one that you use when you need to transmit data and make sure that the recipient got it. When the recipient gets the packet, it sends back a response (acknowledgement) and if the sender doesn't get that, it sends it again. This is what you might use when requesting a web page and sending it back.
UDP is a much quicker 'fire and forget' protocol where you send lots of data to a recipient, but with no acknowlegement because you don't care if it was received. Games use this so send players' position data over and over as you move. The recipient doesn't care if it doesn't receive some of the updates because the player has already moved anyway!
TCP is reliable but slow because of the back and forth and verification process. UDP is quick.
I thought you said wan ka... 🤣🙈
I love your channel, most understanding one I've seen on the creation.
This is probably one of your best videos.
for anyone interested in the shadowy origins of today’s Internet I would highly recommend reading “surveillance Valley “ by Yasha Levine . amazing book
According to the thumbnail, Al Gore it seems
He has ridden the mighty Moon Worm!
Thanks, buddy! That was a fantastic video. It really provides a thorough snapshot of how the internet got its start. Your video will help people from generation to generation understand one of the most iconic inventions in all of human history.
The last part of the video. Well said. Bravo on you!
There are so many people here claiming they created the internet. Let me set the record straight. In spite of the fact that I wasn’t born until a few years after the world wide web came about, I most definitely created the internet. The whole thing. That's right!
But in all seriousness, i had no idea of just how much of the internet’s history I’d missed. I never heard much except Russians, Arpa net and internet. So thank you for expanding my knowledge
This is gonna be EPIC
Well... you do need to be always Online to use Games from Epic.
Awesome job with this!
Thanks for sharing this amazing video!
uh yeah Al Gore invented the internet
"I'm just kidding it was all Willy Wonka."
Greatest quote since ARPANET was created
What a video bro, good efforts
if we ignore the freaky 5 and all the horror stories you've uploaded initially .. all you videos except those are very underrated
I'm glad someone made a video that actually says when the internet happened: the US defense industries/gov created the internet in 1969 when the first computers were connected to ARPANET, which would soon become the first wide-area TCP network.
Al Gore deserves about as much credit as the next guy who invented the internet. At least, this must be the case on average - the average "person who made the internet" will receive the average amount of credit, obviously. So, it took a thousand people, and we could get this done quickly by giving each of them 0.1% credit for ruining the planet and the societies on it. Thank you, Al Gore, for your part in ruining the attention span and critical thinking ability of our species.
Sure, Al Gore enabled the aol-based september that never ended which ruined the internet, but that disaster would have occured eventually. There's just too much obvious money in connecting arbitrarily large quantities of customers to automated services of your company's own design, and too much obvious power inherent to any billionaire thinking of buying up another ten newspapers/TV stations in letting some of that "news" exist perpetually on a server accessible to the public.
Reminder that javascript is an existential risk and was invented as a scripting language for netscape navigator to add a bit of flair to static webpages but ended up just giving us popup ads, virus embeds, tracking, and security risks.
Didn't the drug transaction predate the Sting CD purchase? I could've sworn that was the first online transaction. Maybe it doesn't count since those students knew eachother.
bruh you just wasted so much time just re-saying and explaining what nationsquid already said in the video. unnessesary.
Very interesting video thanks for making it, I'm gonna go rewatch the You are an idiot virus video again lol
I used ARPANET snd MILNET to directly access SIMTEL and download shareware in 1989 on a system at Incirlik and AirBase, called the European distribution System (EDS). I installed four computers at the Maintenance Operation Center in 1992-93. I am also a Ham Radio operator, KC5ENC. I’ve had and had my first broadband connection in 1999, through KCCable. I had an Amiga 2000 to dial in and use telnet on EDS to transfer files. I learned a lot about computers that way and kept using it. I was primarily an RF technician, but did a lot of computer work, including learning, the Motorola net encryption system.
There is a Buck Sergeant that was in charge of the computer shop at Incirlik Air Base name Dale, who taught me some Linux commands.
When I got into like in 1986 we had a 1930s relay switch that was replaced by a Nortel DMS 1000. Before the DMS 1000 was put in you had that talk to an operator and she had to patch a line into the base switch.
When I came in a 1982, I used a key punch machine and a remote teletypewriter to talk to the main frame down the hall. But to get the data off base, we had to take sets of keypunch cards down to a communication center. They had direct lines to transmit the data to other communication centers. I had to walk six blocks at the end of the night to drop these off. : ). When our Unisys 1050 went down, we had to drive to Sheppard Air Force Base to process or cards and transmit them out : )
I wrote the first electronic phonebook at RAF Mildenhall, with the help of the MOD employee named Peter Bollous, as a side project. That would’ve probably been and 92. I wrote it in DBase 3 and compiled with Clipper. I took the data from a word perfect document that we were using to update the base information and converted into delimited ASCII.
Thank you for making this valuable teaching tool.