To: O.C. - Old Cracker
So, the Brits think one of their own invented the Internet in his spare time back in 1991?...Wasn't the Internet a product of a US Defense Department program to link key defense sites? And as I recall, I was already an AOL user back in 1991, when this guy was still "tinkering."
12 posted on
12/31/2003 2:58:44 PM PST by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again...")
To: My2Cents
the Brits think one of their own invented the Internet in his spare time back in 1991
Not the internet - he invented the World Wide Web
15 posted on
12/31/2003 3:26:45 PM PST by
pau1f0rd
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To: My2Cents
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators) in 1990. Tim Berners-Lee was the primary author of html, assisted by his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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