I know computers and the Internet was invented by the British when did Americans become connected on

I ask this as there are allot of Americans suddenly using the Internet, i thought they didn't have computers yet. I've even seen a couple of postings, claiming to of posted, from America, in Yahoo Q%26A, honest.

I know computers and the Internet was invented by the British when did Americans become connected online?pop up blocker

I was told the internet actually began around the mid 1940's as a military secret - a network designed so that if one site was destroyed the network could continue to operate. If so, you're ALL WRONG! ha ha

PS If they're speaking English maybe they're not real Americans at all!

PPS Perhaps America is a fiction too!

My god your thinking is almost infectious!

I know computers and the Internet was invented by the British when did Americans become connected online?systemworks

Let the Americans think they invented the jet engine, radar, DNA profiling,the microwave, enigma cracking and so on. They need to feel good about themselves having elected Bush. That is most understandable.

Meanwhile, we'll carry on with more inventions for the world and give the technology away. We don't need the money. Oh, and the Americans can claim those if they want to.

(And Janet is a secret British agent, aren't you Mrs Moneypenny?)
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Ummm Al gore invented the internet and everyone else jumped on the bandwagon. So it was America first then the british. The exact date was june 6th 1986.
I thought Al Gore invented the Internet, just before he invented Global Warming.
we are finally catching up, do you limeys still own India.?
What??? By the British? Wrong!! The US Department of Defense (DOD) had a hand in creating what we now know as the internet. It started out as ARPA, or ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency), eventually renamed to DARPANet (Devense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1971. That was when the DOD worked with a company called BBN (My daughter worked for this company (a backbone provider) as a network engineer in later years under a different name and knew the history well). Development began in 1969, or that's when BBN won the contract to do the work. BBN developed the @ sign for using in e-mail, which came much later. But they worked with the DOD to develop communications, which became IRC (Internet relay chat), which is still in use today. The DOD was still the sole owner of IRC until I think the early 90's. It's a chat program this still quite widely used. I use it myself. BBN became part of one of GE's operations, then split out on their own, unfortunately, under yet another name ''Genuity''. They did quite well for a while. It didn't help when they built and moved into very high-tech, state-of-the-art facility nearby in Massachusetts (Boston area). Not long after, that part the industry started having problems everywhere. High paid employees with inflated salaries because they were in such demand at the time, gradually started getting laid off over a 2-3 year period.
Apparently the abacus was the earliest and most simplified way of 'computing' mathematical problems thousands of years ago in China.

But the West did it's bit to bring it up to date in the 20th century.

Now in the 21st century, look out. The Chinese will be making and selling them around the world like wild fire.

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