Very few people can say they invented the internet, and actually mean it. The internet began as an experimental resource called the ARPANET, created by the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to connect several educational and governmental labs together and facilitate communication among them.
Both Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn worked on the early designs of ARPANET, but it was their development of a way for all the different computers in the world to talk to each other that allowed the internet as we know it today to exist.
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