Who invented the internet?

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Doug wrote: He certainly has an interesting story for such a major contribution to computing since I've never heard of him either. Get this: "In this work, he developed the basic principles of packet switching, thus providing the fundamental underpinnings for that technology." As far as I know the concept of packet switching was first described by Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation (see a timeline at http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/pioneers3.html. Interestingly enough the name "Kleinrock" does not show up anywhere in this list). But this guy certainly takes the liberty of practically taking full credit for single-handedly inventing the internet. How about this: "More recently, Kleinrock has taken the leading role in the new technology of Nomadic Computing and Communications; the idea is to create a technology that will support the nomadic user in his computing and communication needs as he travels from place to place." This has already been pioneered by Steven Roberts and his BEHEMOTH (see http://www.doitsports.com/biketour/tolman/nomad.htm). Does this dude have an original idea? This guy seems to like to take credit for stuff other people invented. I hate guys like that. Maybe this is a scam web site like that one that was posted last year about the one dude who purportedly single-handedly invented the personal computer and the GUI (didn't that guy also claim to have invented the internet?) Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always hasslin' the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 02/15/99]