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General Forestry => General Board => Topic started by: Brucer on May 01, 2013, 02:10:40 AM
Here it is. Not very exciting, except there was nothing else to compare it to :D.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)
And exactly 20 years ago on April 30, the inventor of the World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee) announced that world wide web technology would be available on a royalty-free basis.
Sure has been a lot happening since then ;D.
Yup, Tim Berners-Lee hijacked the idea smiley_idea from laugh_at Al Gore, smiley_ignore the true inventor of the www. :D :D
Well, I ain't a fan of Al Gore, but in fairness ...
- He never made any claims about the World Wide Web (which isn't quite the same thing as the internet).
- He never claimed to have invented the internet, although lots of people say he did make that claim.
- What he claimed was that he created the internet.
That was a poor choice of words. What he actually did, as a politician, was promote the development and expansion of the internet when most people thought it was just a way for scientists to communicate with each other. And he promoted it for a quarter century.
Quote from: Brucer on May 02, 2013, 01:40:08 AM
- What he claimed was that he created the internet.
That was a poor choice of words.
Just imagine what a poor choice it would have been if he was elected president! :o :o