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Who Invented Packet-Switching?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-giants dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "It's how the Internet works, and now who invented packet-switching is under dispute. A posthumous paper by British scientist Dr. Donald Davies disputes the claim by Leonard Kleinrock to have invented the technique, saying Kleinrock never took it beyond the case of a single node. Kleinrock, whose lab was the first node on Arpanet, is willing to concede that Davies invented the term "packet-switching.""

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  1. I dunno about packet switching by dsinner · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But I invented midget tossing.

  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First person to actually decide to type first post...i win.

    blah

  3. first post??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dunno anymore because of the stupid 20 second rule. Thanks /.

  4. Re:Word on the street by josh253 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He invented pants too.

  5. Re:This one is easy ... by Count+Fecal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, no, no. Apple invented it and Microsoft stole it from them.

  6. Re:Al GORE of course by stark_fist_05 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Obviously you have never seen Al Gore. It is well suspected that Al is a Robotic Creation devised to bore The Masses into servitude. The mystery is just who is behind this maniacal plot.

  7. Re:This one is easy ... by turd191 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Then apple must have stolen it from Xerox!

  8. This is now a National Security (tm) issue.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mr. Bush and his croonies have taken control of the situation. Please return to your normal lives.

  9. Re:What's the point? by mark_lybarger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hit the nail on the head there. it's a friday. better this than having anthrax stories all around this place :). i come to slashdot to get away from anthrax, so if squabbles over packet-switching inventors is all they can muster up toady, i'll take it.

  10. Re:how to tell... by Count+Fecal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think you get it.

  11. no.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Al Gore invented the Internet, so obviously he invented packet switching.

  12. Re:This is ridiculous... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    You're quick today!

  13. Re:The real victim is society by mellonhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why am I having a hard time believing that someone going by the nick, "CmdrTroll", has his name on several patents? Let me guess, you invented the first post?

  14. Al Gore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Al Gore didn't invent packet switching.
    He invented the "information super highway"
    that you are riding on.

  15. Correction by kvx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Microsoft didn't invent packet switching.

    Microsoft innovated packet switching.

  16. News worthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /. seems to go through days where they post flamebate stories like , "Gee what does it take to become a Unix administrator?", or "Who invented packet switiching" GMAFB.
    It appears to be one of those days.

  17. Spanish Inquisition! by Libertaine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It had to be the Spanish Inquisition.
    NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  18. Flux Capacketor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everybody knows that Dr. Emit Brown invented packet switching after he slipped and fell in the bathroom, hitting his head on the toilet.

    Slashdot is really going downhill lately.