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inventor of the Web wins prize!

evoluzione

evoluzione

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ok, so i always thought the internet came about thanks to the US goverment, i guess this guy made it what it is today eh? good ol' Brits 😉


(cheers iGAV) rinky dink link

interesting stuff.


oh, and i forgot to mention, he's pictured using a Powerbook 🙂

i can hear it now....Internet invented on a Mac! hah
 
evoluzione said:
ok, so i always thought the internet came about thanks to the US goverment, i guess this guy made it what it is today eh? good ol' Brits 😉

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oh, and i forgot to mention, he's pictured using a Powerbook 🙂

i can hear it now....Internet invented on a Mac! hah
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Hmmm the internet was thanks to the US Gov't. But W3 is no DARPA creation. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web hyperlink system on a NeXT system.

In effect since the NeXTstep OS components are part of OS X you could say that WWW was invented on a Macintosh in a roundabout kind of way.
 
The title of this thread reminded me of this:

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P-Worm
 
Were lucky to have him at MIT here in Boston. Glad that he got a Mac! 🙂

"Sir Tim currently heads up the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, where he is now based as an academic."
 
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