Hitler invented the Internet!

No this is not a mistake, I truly believe this, I appreciate it seems some what of a rash suggestion but please bear with me....

Between 1943 and 1944 Bletchley Park (our intelligence services) focused their energy and using science to help them with the war efforts.  Because the Germans had adopted the famous Enigma machine for coding all their communication, the allied forces were struggling for intelligence on their movements.  They then recruited thousands of mathematicians and engineers to start work on machines to help them with faster calculations (for aiding with decoding of messages).  Hence forth the beginning of computers began, with Turing, Flowers and experts from Poland the first few machines were built (Bombe, Colossus).  Fortunately the join effort of the scientists helped beat the Enigma machine only days before the famous D-Day landings with critical information.

And so the German forces were eventually defeated, by courage and fortitude from many servicemen and efforts from the collaboration of scientists, which started a new era in history, the computer.  From this point academics in the USA and Europe realised the importance of machines in calculation, which would provide faster results than humans could ever cope with.  In the beginning only a few computers existed so a time sharing situation of the resources was in effect, but academics soon persuaded Universities to build there own.  Obviously government and industry were building too, but since these would be behind closed doors, there was no access to the outside world.  So networking some came to the forefront, these minds needed some way of collaborating and sharing without having to use postal services or travelling in person.  The NSF net became one of the first projects to set up a network across state lines and thus the inter connected network world some became prevalent.  Universities and academics pushed congress for networks across the whole country, even though there were many problems in their way (telephony companies).

Thus I draw this argument to a close, you can see had Nazi's successfully invaded the UK and further maybe the computer would not have been invented and maybe the Internet would have never come about.  The British invested so much in intelligence and science during the second world war, which laid the foundation for computing as we know it, but Hitler was definitely the catalyst and therefore he invented the Internet!!