Where does it end?

Okay, I know this sounds like a stupid question, but where does the internet end?

I mean, we all have internet. All of our internet is sold to us by our ISP's. Where do they get it from? and who gave it to the people who gave it to them, so they could, in turn, give it to you? I'm under the influence that, despite what people think and want us to believe, that there is an owner of the internet…I'd like to find out who it is.

Thanks in advance for your potentially useful answers.

-Caity

I highly doubt this , a man having power of the bases of life's goodies as we know it would just be to uncontrollable and the goverment wouldnt allow it

I am the owner. Bowing right about now would be nice.

The Internet is (as the name suggests) a network of networks, a mesh of networks on top of networks on top of networks. Hence you are one end of the Internet, I am another. I own the end of the Internet that ends at my LAN. In turn my ISP owns quite a damn lot of connections.

The ISP pays people who maintain/build the backbones for bandwidth. Sure there is someone who could shut down a root server (there are 13 of them), like VeriSign or NASA but basically they won't and it wouldn't totally kill the Internet.

At least that's what I've always thought, correct me if I'm wrong.

-Intrus- wrote: I highly doubt this , a man having power of the bases of life's goodies as we know it would just be to uncontrollable and the goverment wouldnt allow it

Unless the government is behind the conspiracy…

And yeah, I know about all the networks connecting and stuff…but where do they all link together and end?!

if u think bout this too much u will just get a headache i have had many sleepless mights pondering this very thing

Pfft…a headache won't keep me from finding the truth!!

lol ok let me kno if u find the answer :)

oh I will… And I'll laugh cuz you didnt find the answer sooner!

well i have spent my whole life in search of the truth i kno it ends somewhere the question is where…

Indeed…and that's EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ASKING!

points to the first post in the thread.

if u do ever succed in finding it witch i rly hope you do, youd probly be abblr to cause some serious misshaps, if u let the knowledge spread . i u have noticed the net is the way it is cuz no one nos whos the hed honco , if thts disturbed…

Oh come on, you honestly think someone owns the internet? Get real.

dude i dont think any one owns the net i just am wonderen where the source is

Maybe not a 'someone' but it does start somewhere, and something has to run it.

i made internet. i am the all powerful creator of the internet. i give you access. :evil:

Oh. Well I guess that solves that problem then :D On to life's next great mystery!

There is no real owner of the internet, only the creator. This man is Tim Berners-Lee. He's still alive I think, probably retired. Well, there you have it.

Think of the name… "internet" (Interconnected networks), it's not owned by any specific person. Your computer connects to your ISP which connects to a network access point (NAP) which connects to a backbone server, which connects to another NAP, and connects to another ISP, and connects to the destination server. If one part of the network fails, there is always another to pick up the slack.

thank you jake :)

yes jake has cleared it up:)

I Personaly Thought That The Bloke On That Doctor Who Episode Owned The Internet? Well At Least He Did Till the Time Lord Took It Off Him

DotHacker0 wrote: There is no real owner of the internet, only the creator. This man is Tim Berners-Lee. He's still alive I think, probably retired. Well, there you have it. He developed the web, not the Internet. The Internet started off as ARPANET in the US in the 60s. Tim Berners-Lee is not retired, he is the Director of the W3C.