Or the concept of LAN\WAN. I had read somewhere it was an American military invention.

No. The internet was essentially invented at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hi James,

in my research (google) i found this interesting Link (http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm) ...good for a laugh.

Also this-http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

Actually, I made a mistake. CERN invented the World Wide Web, but not the internet. I guess it depends partly on what you call "the internet". People have been networking computers for a long time, but it was only in 1991 that hypertext linked information in the form of web pages really got up and running.

he he, i guess i chose the wrong title :)

Most of the internet was developed on Coldwar "Early warning" technology. Notibly by DARPA. Wiki has a good entry on the first occurances of TLD (Top Level Domains), which was really the birth of the modern internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa

Still to this day the body with the largest number of IP addresses is DARPA. In the mid 1990's over 60% of the worlds internet was still sourced in the US, although over the past 10 years a number of backbones have popped up all over the globe.

I thought Al Gore invented the Internet. :D ;)