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Collaborative Efforts Shaped the Birth of the Internet
10/2/2025
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Story summary
- The internet's origins required broad collaboration, with companies relinquishing patents and individuals contributing time.
- The internet, a complex protocol, was developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn at the U.S. Department of Defense.
- Brewster Kahle highlights a choice: an open information superhighway or a limited network.
- Tim Berners-Lee's CERN work led to the World Wide Web, a significant twentieth-century invention.
