"When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part): “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
In context, Gore’s response (which employed the word “created,” not “invented”) was clear in meaning: the vice president was not claiming that he “invented” the Internet in the sense of having thought up, designed, or implemented it, but rather asserting that he was one of the visionaries responsible for helping to bring it into being by fostering its development in an economic and legislative sense."
Oh boy! You really got me on this one. I have to be honest with you, I know very little about it. I have forgotten more than I ever knew.
I think you may be referring to ARPAnet? It was the considered the first Internet and the first to use packet switching through and TCP/IP. Email, FTP (File Transfer Protocal) and Telnet were all created and implemented under ARPAnet.
The Military used ARPAnet as well but stopped when more and more people started using it and started their own called MILnet or Military Network.
Hospitals, Universtities, and other organizations all had LANS (local area networks) in-house that their computers attached to. These LANs would then attach to the WAN (Wide Area Network) which was the ARPAnet to share data with eachother. ARPAnet was eventually replaced starting in the mid 1980s with NSFnet (National Science Foundation network) for the back bone and ARPAnet was shutdown about 1990.
What I know about the LANs that connected to ARPAnet is abysmal and TBH, I would love to forget them. LOL
There were various Network operating systems like Banyan Vines & Novell for for example for data/file/print sharing and some used "Token Ring" which is a local area network technology communications protocol. It uses a special three-byte frame called a "token" that travels around a logical "ring" of workstations or servers.
I remember how silly this all was because Data Centers were moving fro Centralized to Decentralized setups so they started opurchasing more and more PC's, Tellecommunications equipment, and servers. Eventually, they ended up becoming centralized again.
OMG I need a drink or a big fat Joint! My head hurts!
Is this what you were asking? lol