according to twitter, a Black man invented the internet

[Pied Piper]

https://twitter.com/revofevxd/status/791343407469780992

https://twitter.com/OctopusStan/status/755974667853111296

 

[ReAnimator Reagan]

https://twitter.com/revofevxd/status/791343407469780992

https://twitter.com/OctopusStan/status/755974667853111296

And bluetooth

 

[BassAckwards]

lol-we all know that al gore invented the internet

i guess a pic of a random black guy next to an old ibm computer makes everything legit

 

[MMAAAM]

Reminds me of that book or expo or whatever the fuck it was that claimed that pretty much everything was created by Muslims.

 

[Covfefe]

I created the internet.

 

[Limbo Pete]

According to the internet, aliens sank Atlantis

 

[Limbo Pete]

I created the internet.

That would explain a thing or two

 

[Pied Piper]

Reminds me of that book or expo or whatever the fuck it was that claimed that pretty much everything was created by Muslims.

there are some incredibly intelligent muslims. I was shocked when I learned that half of the worlds top minds are muslim, while the other half atheist/agnostic. just goes to show, you can be intelligent and still completely brainwashed

 

[Covfefe]

That would explain a thing or two

 

[SwamiLeoni]

Looks to be semi-true. Although he didn't outright 'invent' the internet, he had a large role in it.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1963424_1963480_1963457,00.html

hilip Emeagwali, A Calculating Move
By Madison GrayFriday, Jan. 12, 2007

Emeagwali.com
It's hard to say who invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once.

Emeagwali was born to a poor family in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. Despite his brain for math, he had to drop out of school because his family, who had become war refugees, could no longer afford to send him. As a young man, he earned a general education certificate from the University of London and later degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan.

At Michigan, he participated in the scientific community's debate on how to simulate the detection of oil reservoirs using a supercomputer. Growing up in an oil-rich nation and understanding how oil is drilled, Emeagwali decided to use this problem as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Borrowing an idea from a science fiction story about predicting the weather, Emeagwali decided that rather than using 8 expensive supercomputers he would employ thousands of microprocessors to do the computation.

The only step left was to find 8 machines and connect them. (Remember, it was the 80s.) Through research, he found a machine called the Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which had sat unused after scientists had given up on figuring out how to make it simulate nuclear explosions. The machine was designed to run 65,536 interconnected microprocessors. In 1987, he applied for and was given permission to use the machine, and remotely from his Ann Arbor, Michigan, location he set the parameters and ran his program. In addition to correctly computing the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.

The crux of the discovery was that Emeagwali had programmed each of the microprocessors to talk to six neighboring microprocessors at the same time.

The success of this record-breaking experiment meant that there was now a practical and inexpensive way to use machines like this to speak to each other all over the world. Within a few years, the oil industry had seized upon this idea, then called the Hyperball International Network creating a virtual world wide web of ultrafast digital communication.

The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. Since then, he has won more than 100 prizes for his work and Apple computer has used his microprocessor technology in their Power Mac G4 model. Today he lives in Washington with his wife and son.

"The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present."

 

[Seraldo Babalu]

The black Al Gore

 

[KONE]

we wuz kangz

 

[Pied Piper]

Looks to be semi-true. Although he didn't outright 'invent' the internet, he had a large role in it.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1963424_1963480_1963457,00.html

a biased article promoting black history month.


https://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/emeagwali.html


"No. Philip Emeagwali was never a "father of the Internet" and made no significant contributions to the Internet's development. Philip Emeagwali did not invent the Internet.

Philip Emeagwali did work in supercomputing in the eighties, making improvements to the "Connection Machine" parallel supercomputer design. But supercomputing and the Internet are very different areas. And Emeagwali did not contribute to even one of the hundreds of Internet standards, or RFCs (Requests For Comments), that were created in the early decades of the Internet— an open process that anyone could participate in. His supercomputing research was completely unrelated to the Internet."

 

[ReAnimator Reagan]

there are some incredibly intelligent muslims. I was shocked when I learned that half of the worlds top minds are muslim, while the other half atheist/agnostic. just goes to show, you can be intelligent and still completely brainwashed

You are going to have to show some proof of your ridiculous claims.

 

[Deleted member 491001]

a biased article promoting black history month.


https://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/emeagwali.html


"No. Philip Emeagwali was never a "father of the Internet" and made no significant contributions to the Internet's development. Philip Emeagwali did not invent the Internet.

Philip Emeagwali did work in supercomputing in the eighties, making improvements to the "Connection Machine" parallel supercomputer design. But supercomputing and the Internet are very different areas. And Emeagwali did not contribute to even one of the hundreds of Internet standards, or RFCs (Requests For Comments), that were created in the early decades of the Internet— an open process that anyone could participate in. His supercomputing research was completely unrelated to the Internet."

Wow, that's a lot different than the other account.

The claim that he left school at 14 because his parents couldn't afford it isn't mentioned on wikipedia, but it does say he was fighting in the Biafra army starting at 13

 

[Pied Piper]

You are going to have to show some proof of your ridiculous claims.

im looking for the article, I saw read it a couple years ago

 

[Pied Piper]

Wow, that's a lot different than the other account.

The claim that he left school at 14 because his parents couldn't afford it isn't mentioned on wikipedia, but it does say he was fighting in the Biafra army starting at 13

Im reading some more articles about him. apparently he is a known con man/Nigerian scammer

 

[ripskater]

I thought Al Gore was white?

 

[loyalyolayal]

there are some incredibly intelligent muslims. I was shocked when I learned that half of the worlds top minds are muslim, while the other half atheist/agnostic. just goes to show, you can be intelligent and still completely brainwashed

Never half. And mostly are probably Shias from Iran.

 

[MMAAAM]

"No. Philip Emeagwali was never a "father of the Internet" and made no significant contributions to the Internet's development. Philip Emeagwali did not invent the Internet.

Philip Emeagwali did work in supercomputing in the eighties, making improvements to the "Connection Machine" parallel supercomputer design. But supercomputing and the Internet are very different areas. And Emeagwali did not contribute to even one of the hundreds of Internet standards, or RFCs (Requests For Comments), that were created in the early decades of the Internet— an open process that anyone could participate in. His supercomputing research was completely unrelated to the Internet."

And there you have it.