Did a Black man invent the internet?

FIRST, LET’S DISPELL THE MYTHS

The average American assumes the internet was invented by either an American or group of Americans (i.e., the U.S. military, a team of engineers and/or scientists who worked for any number of private corporations)… The common thread in all of these claims is the fact there is “no documented proof” to support any of them… So, there is the possibility an “underhanded ploy” might exist (by Rightwing bigots) to cover up the fact a “Black man invented the internet”… Now, we just have to zero-in on the particular Black man the Rightwing bigots are trying to hide… After all, it is little-known fact that Black people are responsible for dozens upon dozens of inventions that changed the courses of societies and the world… As a matter of fact, not too many people are aware of the following life-changing inventions by African-Americans:

- Modern Refrigerator - (US Patent 455,891/John Stanard/Standard, 1891)

- Oil Driven Oven/Stove - (US Patent 413,689/John Stanard/Standard, 1889)

John Standard’s last name became the noun “(the) standard” in the (American) English language.

- Modern Clothes Dryer - (US Patent 476,416/George T. Sampson, 1892)

The phrase "The Real McCoy (‘real thing’, ‘genuine article’, ‘best quality’, ‘quality workmanship’)” is accredited to African-American inventor “Elijah McCoy” who was responsible for several inventions that improved the railroad throughout the 1800s… To name a few:

- US Patent 129,843/Lubricators for Steam Engines, 1872

- US Patent 146,697/Steam Lubricator, 1874

- US Patent 614,307/Oil-Dripping Cup for Trains (allowed lubrication during operation), 1898

In addition, Elijah McCoy invented the PORTABLE IRONING BOARD (US Patent 150,876), the LAWN SPRINKLER (US Patent USD31549 S, 1899), MODERN CAR TIRES AND TREADS (US Patent 1,127,789, 1915 / USD63107 S, 1922), RUBBER HEEL design, shoes (US Patent USD68725 S, 1925), FALCET VALVE (US Patent US1101868 A, 1912)… These are but a few of his 57 patented inventions…

My point is just about every single thing invented by African-Americans IS NOT common knowledge and has been relegated (swept in)to the “footnotes” of history!... So, if a Black man did indeed invent the internet, it is not a “far stretch” to assume this too has been swept under the rug :::

BLACKS HELPED PIONEER THE DIGITAL AGE

The average internet addict is not aware they can thank historical Black figures for their major part in dragging the world out of the stone-age into the digital-age…

Philip Emeagwali, born in Nigeria, is an engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and geologist… In 1989, he won a Gordon Bell Prize for his “Connection Machine” consisting of a series of supercomputers intended for applications in artificial intelligence, symbolic processing, and computational science… Emeagwali’s connection machine turned out to be the fastest computer in the world… However, Philip Emeagwali is not accredited the inventor of the internet, as much as, he as accredited a "forefather" of the internet… But he did pave the way for artificial intelligence (AI)!... As a matter of fact, African-American actor, Joe Morton, played “Miles Bennett Dyson (inventor of Skynet, a sort of internet run by artificial intelligence)” in the "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" movie; a character who was based on Philip Emeagwali…

Dr. Mark E. Dean, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, helped start the digital revolution with his invention of the modern personal computer (PC)… Yes, that thing you’re probably using to access the internet, this African-American man invented (US Patent 4,528,626 A, 1985)… In addition, Dr. Dean is responsible for the “Color Graphics Adapter (US Patent 4,437,092, 1984)”, that makes the color computer monitors we all enjoy, possible… He also led the design team that developed the first “one-megahertz (one billion calculations per second) computer processing chip”; the forerunner for making faster and faster personal computers :::

WHO INVENTED THE INTERNET, EXACTLY?

Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist, is best known as the inventor of the “World Wide Web”…

Although most people use the terms the “World Wide Web” and the “Internet” interchangeably, they are not exactly the same thing… The Internet is a global system of (physically) interconnected computer networks that use the "Standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)" to globally link several billion devices [the hardware]… THIS is NOT what the average person means when they use the term “The Internet”… And one person (or group of people) are not responsible for its construction... On the contrary, "governments" were involved!...

This (internet) network was originally designed to be the only means of global communication (between governments) that would survive a nuclear war... It's been around for a long time (for government use) before the decision to make it for commercial (public) use... They (governments) must have something even better (for themselves) to replace the internet that we are now using...

In contrast, the World Wide Web (identified “www” in every url address) is a system of "interlinked hypertext documents" [the software] that are accessed via the Internet (the vast NETwork of several billion INTERnally connected devices)... A “web browser” allows you to view “web pages” that contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia; and navigate between them via the use of hyperlinks… THIS activity is what the average person means when they use the term “The Internet”…

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee made the first successful communication between a “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)” client and server via the internet (that vast NETwork of several billion INTERnally connected devices)… This new development became the activity commonly known as “surfing the web”…

For more information: http://www.tinyurl.com/TBernersLee

IS TIM BERNERS-LEE A BLACK MAN?

Tim Berners-Lee was born to Mary L. Woods (a black woman) and Conway Berners-Lee (a white man), both of Birmingham, ENG… Conway, a mathematician and computer scientist, and Mary, also a mathematician and computer scientist, are noted for their work on the the Ferranti Mark 1; the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer… Now, the one drop rule (a sociological principle of racial classification that most, if not all, white people acknowledge) dictates, “Any person with even ONE ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry (‘one drop’ of African blood) is considered to be black!”…

So, regardless to what Tim Berners-Lee may look like on the outside, because of his mother, he is considered a Black man… But as it has turned out, because of his accomplishments, the Rightwing bigots overlook the one drop rule and acknowledge Tim Berners-Lee is “white”… It is a very difficult, if not impossible, task to find a picture of his mother, Mary L. Woods!... I would hazard a guess, the bigots-that-be don’t want anyone to know what she looks like… But after extensive searching, I managed to scrounge up a few…

Who Invented The Internet

Who Created The Internet

Idiot! Al Gore invented the internet. Is Al Gore black?

You are correct. It was invented by the US military as a from of communication that could withstand a nuclear war. There was no one single man who invented the Internet. Instead it was a group of classified engineers that invented, maintained, and upgraded the Internet until Al Gore and his band of politicians proposed that it be used by Americans. Their reasoning was that it would be a major commerce and information exchange that could be exploited for financial gain.

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I thought it was invented by Swedish scientists so they could do research without travelling.

No. It was first used by the American federal government.

There must be some truth to what FNN says. There is a picture of Tim Berners-Lee's (white) father on his wikipedia page, but no picture of his (black) mother on her wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Berners-Lee (dad)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lee_Woods (mom)

In the United States, millions of people who look white but have "black family (one parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent)" HIDES THAT FACT because they know they will be classified as "BLACK" by other white people!

Rightwing bigots are just dying to delete this!

@Phil A - Just like a "Rightwing Worm" to latch on and try to "steal" someone else's thunder!