This is not an uncontroversial statement as some Internet historians credit Donald Davies, a British computer scientist, with inventing the ‘packet switching’ for which Paul Baran is the most famous.

The minister cited this example from the Hindu epic Mahabharata to prove his point A minister who has claimed that the internet was invented thousands of years ago by ancient Indians is being met ...

A mockumentary short following 'Gary Internet,' the eccentric self-acclaimed 'inventor of the internet,' and his trouble re-connecting with the modern world.

The internet can seem like an eternally fixed part of life, but it’s young enough that most of the people who invented it are still around to offer observations about where it should go.