Regards, Ivan
Come on, England!
Posted on 06/15/2004 2:02:20 PM PDT by MadIvan
The man who invented the World Wide Web is finally to get some payment for having done so.
Although many scientists were involved with the development of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee was the one who came up with the idea of the World Wide Web, says the Daily Mail.
However because he insisted it should not be patented, so everyone could have free access to it, so far he has missed out on the kind of fortunes that have come to some dotcom millionaires.
Now Briton Berners-Lee, who lives in America, is to receive the world's largest science prize, the £650,000 Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
Regards, Ivan
Come on, England!
Ping!
Gore wants a recount! Somebody call David Boies!
Isn't the web an expansion of a network already put in place by DARPA? That's what I heard. It actually belongs to the US military.
Let us not forget Vincent Cerf who invented Tcp/ip either.
Here's the RFC dated 1981, it is part of the ARPANET.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html
Yup. The first version of an IP based network was funded by the US Department of Defence in 1969 as a means of communicating with defence contractors and universities doing military research. Robustness was provided over the imperfect network by packet switching technology, developed by another DoD engineer Paul Baran, as a means of ensuring failure resistant communications. The myth still persists that the Arpanet was invented to make a nuclear counter strike possible amid post-apocalyptic devastation. However, this has more to do with retrospective fantasies about the Cold War than with the reality of internet history. The illustration is part of one of the first skethches of the network architecture, showing one host and one node, from September 1969.
The World Wide Web and the internet are not the same thing.
Personally I think the whole GUI thing is a passing fad. Anybody still run GOPHER?
I still use ftp and usenet. What about Archie/Veronica?
Had he patented HTML, it would have never succeded.
What about HTTP? Wasn't that also part of his work?
Spent way to many hours in college playing "Star Trek" on the old teletypes.
Problem was, every time the Klingons attacked, the bell would ring very loudly about 12 times in a row... RED ALERT!!! RED ALERT!!!
Eventually the administration shut it down to after hours only.
The Internet has devolved into the World Wide Web.
Yep - and he invented URLs, too, only he called them something different.
The world wide web is not the same thing as the internet.
ROTFLMAO! There's something just...wrong...about that...
My first e-mail was uuvax!calcas!sysop
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