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Â· just now. 1  Well to start with, let me tell you that the fist network to be ever established was the Arpanet, setup by the US military during the Gulf War. 2  Vinton Cerf is considered the father of the internet, and Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the World Wide Web.
Ed Clark/Time Life Pictures/ Getty Images. Mention the history of the Internet to a group of people, and chances are someone will make a snarky comment about Al Gore claiming to have invented it. Gore actually said that he took the initiative in creating the Internet [source: CNN ].hey called the network ARPANET .Â­ Without ARPANET, the Internet wouldn't look or behave the way it does today -- it might not even exist. Although other groups were working on ways to network computers, ARPANET established the protocols used on the Internet today.