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The internet wasn't invented by a single person, it has been in development since 1964 based on a paper by Leonard Kleinrock on packet switching from 1961. The first transmission was in 1969.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee started the world wide web by joining hypertext (http) with the internet.

But surely Kinect is the most important invention of the modern world as it can dock satellites, help perform surgeries, and pimp out your shopping trollie.