The British people's development on the Internet can be said to be second only to the United States, and the history of British people in computer is worth exploring. A alan turing is enough to outshine others. The famous British mathematician and logician, known as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, is the founder of computer logic, and put forward some important concepts such as "Turing machine" and "Turing test". Its contribution and status are unmatched by an American (von Neumann is Hungarian), so the highest award in the computer field is named "Turing Award".

So this time, we will visit the Bletchley Park in Turing Cryptography Center of World War II, and do an interview here. There is also the National Physics Laboratory (NPL), which used to package switching technology, and a visit to the British Computer History Museum. I also visited the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Several of the most important historical towns in Britain were visited one by one.

Blackley park

British Museum of Computer History

Alan turing Statue in British Computer History Museum.

Alan turing Statue in British Computer History Museum.

Deeply excavate and restore Britain's historical contribution to the development of the Internet.

In 20 13, Queen Elizabeth II presented the first Queen's Engineering Award at Buckingham Palace, and five Internet pioneers won this honor. They are Venter CERF and Bob Kang En, the founders of the Internet protocol, Tim Berners Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, mark anderson, the inventor of the first web browser, and Louis Pu Sang, the father of the French Internet. It is said that Europeans account for two fifths, and Europeans account for a small part, and their weight is not low, accounting for almost half of the country. However, the British are still extremely dissatisfied.

Donald Davis of NPL died in 2000, but Roger Scantlebury and Peter Wilkinson, the core members of Donald Davis' team, published an open letter in the British newspaper The Guardian, complaining that there were no NPL team members. The awards awarded by the British themselves are not even recognized by the Internet pioneers funded by the British government, let alone other countries. It really makes sense. Therefore, one of the important tasks of our online oral history trip to Britain is to fully explore and show the pioneering work of the British network and restore more historical truths and more neglected objective historical materials.

The first generation of computer witches

Exhibits at the British Museum of Computer History

Exhibits at the British Museum of Computer History

Exhibits at the British Museum of Computer History

Was the Internet invented by Americans? The British have something to say.

20 19 is 50 years since the birth of the internet. Speaking of the origin of the Internet, people all over the world know that the Internet was developed with the financial support of the American government. Almost no one can doubt this, but Europeans have a lot of complaints about it, because in the early days of the Internet in the 1960s and 1970s, Europe did not lag behind the United States, and even played a key role in promoting the three fundamental technologies of the Internet: packet switching technology, wide area network technology and Internet protocol.

In particular, the British team led by Danold Davies of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Peter Kirstein, the father of the Internet in Europe and a professor at University College London, played an important role in the development of many early technologies, directly inspired and influenced the work of the father of the Internet in the United States, and even became more advanced in many aspects. In addition, the inventor of the World Wide Web, the main application of the Internet, was also an Englishman, Tim Berners Lee. In addition, Puzan, the father of Internet in France, is ahead of the United States in networking practice, which directly inspired the birth and popularization of TCP/IP protocol, the father of Internet in the United States. Therefore, Europeans have always believed that in the history of the global Internet, the weight of Europe has been obviously underestimated and obliterated.

Online oral history

Whether history is created by the people or by heroes of the times, it is created by the people after all. Whether the times create heroes or heroes create times, some individuals often stand out. At the critical moment of the historical process, they did not miss the critical moment given by the times, and made unique contributions and impossible miracles with their own personal characteristics and unique efforts. They are the representatives of the historical process, and they are the models of the times. Focusing on and penetrating them can better restore the glory of history and show the unique creativity of human beings. It is no exaggeration to say that these people are the instigators and leaders who push China from a semi-agricultural and semi-industrial society to an information society. He is a hero, a hero who pushes the whole mankind from industrial civilization to a higher level of information civilization. Their personal achievements and significance of the times will be continuously highlighted and recognized with the passage of time. -Fang Xingdong.

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