1 posted on
10/14/2009 8:08:48 PM PDT by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
We refer to it as “Whack Whack”
2 posted on
10/14/2009 8:09:42 PM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Steelfish
don’t even mention it. Start at www.
3 posted on
10/14/2009 8:11:22 PM PDT by
GeronL
To: Steelfish
The nation is going down the drain, thr Islamists are demanding full Shari-ah Law and this is what their papers are covering?
4 posted on
10/14/2009 8:12:08 PM PDT by
GeronL
To: Steelfish
Jeez. Ya can’t see EVERYTHING!
LOL, I wonder if he saw the Internet turning into what it is?
6 posted on
10/14/2009 8:13:04 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
To: Steelfish
You always think of ways you could have done it better, after the fact.
7 posted on
10/14/2009 8:13:05 PM PDT by
mlo
To: Steelfish
Who cares? On a modern browser, you can leave out the entire "http://", and the browser will fill that in for you. It's simply a low-level detail that the average user doesn't have to bother with.
8 posted on
10/14/2009 8:13:20 PM PDT by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: Steelfish
eh..most browsers fill it in for you if you want (along with the http:), I think it does a nice job of separating the what from the where.
A bigger problem was the use of “www.” He picked the ONLY letter of the alphabet that takes three syllables to pronunce. If a German came up with it, it might have been the Vorld Vide Veb. How much faster to say “vvv.”
9 posted on
10/14/2009 8:13:39 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Steelfish
What's the difference between Tim Berners-Lee and Al Gore?
One is a loon who claims to have invented the internet and has a Nobel Prize.
The other is the guy who invented the World Wide Web.
10 posted on
10/14/2009 8:13:45 PM PDT by
Tribune7
(I am Joe Wilson!)
To: Steelfish
He should have just used one left parenthesis.
http:)
11 posted on
10/14/2009 8:13:50 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: Steelfish
The real problem is that he didn't check with AlGore before adding this to The Bloviator's invention.
17 posted on
10/14/2009 8:21:04 PM PDT by
shibumi
(" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
To: Steelfish
They are, technically, back “virgules”, but ‘ah, well’ ...
18 posted on
10/14/2009 8:21:11 PM PDT by
dodger
To: Steelfish
Sssh. We have cleverly concealed much steganographic information in the forward slashes. No one must know. Don’t even get me started about what is contained in the “www”.
20 posted on
10/14/2009 8:24:28 PM PDT by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Steelfish
Let's see. http://www.something.com
I think the guy is wrong. The "//" is there to make parsing easy because two backslashes are extremely rare in written English (and I assume all other languages as well). When you are constructing a parser you work your way through a document looking for patterns. When you see :// you know that you have a URL on your hands. Leave out the // and you just might come across some guy who named his company "Harold's Temporary Teaching Patterns" and wants to use http as the abbreviation for his company name. Could happen. Would happen. But not if you use good old //.
To: Steelfish
NOW wait just one minute...
I read here. FREEREPUBLIC. I mean Here. Al Gore invented the internet.
(Before HIS Nobel)
22 posted on
10/14/2009 8:38:07 PM PDT by
Dryman
("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
To: Steelfish
>
...he started devising the network almost three decades ago,...NOT QUITE.
His work started in 1989. That's TWO decades, not three.
Good lord, now journalists can't even subtract, much less write...
25 posted on
10/14/2009 9:16:41 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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