Who owns the internet? Where is the INTERNET based?Does it have a control room of some kind or just satelites?

The USA did own it. Read the article.Who owns the internet? Where is the INTERNET based?Does it have a control room of some kind or just satelites?
interesting question...Who owns the internet? Where is the INTERNET based?Does it have a control room of some kind or just satelites?
good question..i don't think anybody owns it,it's just a load of computers and servers and wires and stuff like that other guy said..


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This is a difficult question. The individual networks and connections are owned by many individual companies and organisations, and each makes the chunks it owns available to be used to a greater or lesser extent creating the Internet as a whole. So, when you connect to your ISP from home, you are effectively leasing a connection to their part of the network. They in turn will lease connections to ISPs and network providers 'upstream', and so on. The core UK network providers own and maintain a backbone of connections criss-crossing the country. Other providers run connections to Europe and the United States, and so on.





So when you send an email from your computer in Exeter to your Aunt in Peru or your best friend travelling the world and connecting in a cybercafe in Touva, the message is travelling via many networks owned by many people, companies and government bodies. What's remarkable is that you're not charged by each company en route, since they all cooperate and allow (almost) all traffic to pass through. Payment is made through the chain of ISPs by each ISP paying for its right to connect higher up the chain, and agreeing to pass traffic through its own network. It's a model that works well, though it is becoming more complex as the commercial value of connectivity increases.
the internet has no owner its just and incredibly huge network of computers and servers
he USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.[1][2] ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.





Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT in 1950, after becoming interested in information technology. At MIT, he served on a committee that established Lincoln Laboratory and worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.





At the IPTO, Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the ';eve'; networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.





The first TCP/IP-wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet.





It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, BITNET and the various commercial and educational networks, such as X.25, Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet) was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dial-up access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation since the 1970s. This network eventually merged with the others in the 1990s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks, especially the international X.25 IPSS network, allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of the term ';Internet'; to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.