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Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the internet
Deutsche Welle ^ | 11.25.2019 | wmr/cmk (AFP, AP)

Posted on 11/25/2019 7:55:25 AM PST by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 11/25/2019 7:55:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I can only assume he’s working with Al Gore on this.


2 posted on 11/25/2019 7:58:05 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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a British engineer credited with having invented the World Wide Web in 1989

Man who DIDN'T invent the Internet/WorldWideWeb? I think I'm going to add that to my resume since everyone else seems to get away with it.

3 posted on 11/25/2019 7:58:14 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Olog-hai

Google, Microsoft and Facebook , can you smell that ?


4 posted on 11/25/2019 8:06:08 AM PST by butlerweave
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No one he names in support, is in favor of free speech or a free press.


5 posted on 11/25/2019 8:09:03 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: butlerweave

Smells like Fascism.

Big Government joining with Big Business to enforce tyranny on the People while telling the people that utopia is coming.

I want smaller government. I want less government protection of media companies. If they slander and libel it should cost them.


6 posted on 11/25/2019 8:10:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Olog-hai
Google, Microsoft and Facebook, ... Reporters Without Borders ... the governments of Germany and France

Soon to be joined by the CCP. Yeah, that'll save the internet.

7 posted on 11/25/2019 8:10:56 AM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: Olog-hai

Darpa and Arpa created the internet back in 68-69.
The WWW was created as a graphical interface to what was a very difficult system to use.

I remember the day in I think ‘93 when I saw the first web browser.
We were shocked at Intel and suddenly 3/4 the building was exploring the possibilities.


8 posted on 11/25/2019 8:12:00 AM PST by Zathras
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To: cuban leaf

Given that Googld FB et al are backing it, it has to be a slicker more efficient way to filter out all non PC information and from the entire Web rather than from only FB and Google etc. Perhaps it will be in conjunctio with the big banks to institute a Social Credit Score with real teeth. Get the Banks working on it and the whole economy can be brought into line.


9 posted on 11/25/2019 8:12:47 AM PST by arthurus (,/'^'\, --\|/-------\I/--/|\)
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The plan is backed by more than 150 organizations, including internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Facebook
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Well, that makes me think it’s evil, because those outfits are.


10 posted on 11/25/2019 8:15:22 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai
The plan is backed by more than 150 organizations, including internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Facebook

What's next, a plan to save the banking system backed by Chase, Bank of America and Citibank? How about a plan to solve the partisan political problems, authored by Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell?

11 posted on 11/25/2019 8:15:29 AM PST by ssaftler ("Congressman Schiff, have you no shame?")
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“I will stand up for the preservation of the free internet that we have grown to know and love in recent decades,” German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said...


Here’s the problem in a nutshell. When we hear “free internet”, the left and right hear two different things.

The Right: “Free internet” = freedom of speech, freedom from censorship and freedom from lynch mobs coming after you for your thoughts and speech.

The Left: “Free internet” = free porn


12 posted on 11/25/2019 8:19:16 AM PST by Boogieman
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For the Left, “free” also means at no cost, which means the government runs and controls the whole thing using your tax dollars. So, you know, it’s free.


13 posted on 11/25/2019 8:27:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ElkGroveDan

He didn’t claim to “invent the internet”.

It says he is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, which he did by demonstrating the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in Nov. 1989.

Reading comprehension.


14 posted on 11/25/2019 8:27:40 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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re: “Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee”

Did he work at work at (the early) Cisco? Or Sun Microsystems?

Did he work at DARPA?


15 posted on 11/25/2019 8:29:49 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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re: “The WWW was created as a graphical interface to what was a very difficult system to use.”

What was the name of that text based ‘crawler’ that could follow simple links back then (I think it was)?

The ‘browser’ at that point became a link/a combination of a text-based document viewer/reader and images (gifs etc.) then ....


16 posted on 11/25/2019 8:33:26 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML which is what all web pages, including this one, are encoded in. So he in fact did invent the World Wide Web, which is not the same as the Internet.


17 posted on 11/25/2019 8:35:28 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Olog-hai

https://contractfortheweb.org/

All the right buzzwords. Diversity, Inclusivness, Humanity, Sustainable, bla bla


18 posted on 11/25/2019 8:38:20 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Zathras

Here’s what I was thinking of:

From: “Precursors”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser#Precursors

From 1987 ... TransText

Another early browser, Silversmith ...1987 ...

Starting in 1988, Peter Scott and Earle Fogel expanded the earlier HyperRez concept in creating Hytelnet which added jumps to telnet sites ... and which by 1990 offered users instant logon and access to the online catalogs of over 5000 libraries around the world. ...


19 posted on 11/25/2019 8:47:09 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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I didnt know the internet needed saving...Is this like we have 11.6 years to save the Earff?


20 posted on 11/25/2019 8:48:51 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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