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The networks before the web
The online world has no single builder. This history board follows a shared achievement: packet-switching research, network protocols, email, the web, open software and the infrastructure now called the cloud.
Paul Baran and Donald Davies developed important packet-switching ideas; Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn helped develop TCP/IP. Ray Tomlinson’s networked email work, Elizabeth Feinler’s network-information work, Jon Postel’s stewardship and Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web belong to different parts of this history.