(July 28, 2012 at 10:19 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Who invented the internet?Al Gore. Actually, despite being ridiculed for saying he helped create it, he did pave the way for the development of infrastructure that supports the Internet. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Bill
As for who actually invented the Internet, it was mainly academics and the US government. The predecessor of the Internet is ARPANET, which connected several university networks together way back in 1969. The global Internet was strung together in the late 80's by various teams of scientists (CERN played a major part in this). Really though, it's hard to pinpoint an actual starting point for "the Internet", since it's based on so many technologies that were used in previous systems. Unlike the invention of the World Wide Web, there isn't one single person who invented the Internet; it's far too complex.
Quote:How much of it is porn?I presume you mean on the World Wide Web? Well, it depends on how you want to measure it. In terms of websites, only about 4% are sex-related, though 13% of searches are for pornography. If you are talking about actual content, then it's obviously a lot, but then again you can't really make good comparisons since a newspaper article may take up a few hundred kilobytes, but a short porn video will be several megabytes in size. The short answer: A lot.
Quote:...was that why it was invented?Oh, I'm sure it crossed Berners-Lee's mind at some point. He originally created the World Wide Web to share academic articles though.
(July 28, 2012 at 10:34 am)orogenicman Wrote: I have a question for you, Tiberius. I have an AMD Phenom quad core processor on a Gigabyte MA780G-UD3H motherboard with 8 gigs of DDR2 ram, an ATI Radeon 4800 series graphics card with 1 gig of video ram with a RAID 10 array running Windows 7 64 bit ultimate. I have had a long-running issue with video on this machine. If I watch a streamed movie, such as a movie on Netflix using Microsoft silverlight, after the movie is over, if I try to watch a video on, for instance youtube (i.e., video that uses Adobe flash or some other renderer), but also elsewhere, the video will not run. The only way I've been able to remedy the problem is to reboot the computer. I do not have this problem after watching dvds or blueray or any video native to my computer. Only with streaming video do I have this problem. I have done a pretty extensive search on the internet and can find no other solution to this problem. I suspect it is simply an issue inherent with Windows x64, but I could be wrong. All of my drivers along with Silverlight and flash are updated. I also get this issue regardless of the browser I use (I have IE9, Chrome, and Opera). Have you seen this before, and if so, do you have any suggestions for resolving this issue.This doesn't really have anything to do with the Internet, and I can't see why it would. Have you tried restarting just your browser, or using another browser? Silverlight and Flash run inside web browsers, so you should only have to restart those and not your entire computer. I'd suggest asking this at a computer forum or going to a store and asking someone there.
