Wait a minute......didn't Gore invent the internet?

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Wait a minute......didn't Gore invent the internet?

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Tim Berners-Lee, the London-born scientist who invented the World Wide Web, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on Friday.
He received the knighthood in recognition of his services to the development of the Internet through the invention of the Web, a system to organize, link and browse pages on the Internet.
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wasnt the ARPANET the grand daddy of it all

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yup
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Post by Scott »

I thought the WWW and the Internet were different? WWW runs on the internet, does it not?

So yes, Al Gore is still the inventor of the internet. :D
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Yep ARPANET was, created by the military.

They just messed around with it for years without it really going anywhere.

So Tim Berners-Lee went off and created his own thing with other scientists.
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tao_jones wrote:wasnt the ARPANET the grand daddy of it all
Maybe so but,
........In 1991, Berners-Lee developed the basic components of the Web -- including the first Web computer server, browser and editor. .......


.......Through 1991 and 1993, Tim continued working on the design of the Web, coordinating feedback from users across the Internet. His initial specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as the Web technology spread.

In 1994, Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since that time he has served as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium which coordinates Web development worldwide, with teams at MIT, at INRIA in France, and at Keio University in Japan. The Consortium takes as its goal to lead the Web to its full potential, ensuring its stability through rapid evolution and revolutionary transformations of its usage. The Consortium may be found at http://www.w3.org/.
Second part of quote from HERE. This man has changed the world forever, he is the reason why we can post here today.

He refined it and made it what it is today. :thumb:
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Post by downhill »

Thanks for the link, RoundEye....I've put the story on the front page... :)

http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=1462



Oh yeah...for umps and giggles....

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39301,00.html
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children and the children yet unborn and the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
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