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Happy Birthday WWW
Happy Birthday World Wide Web
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04-30-2013, 11:36 AM | #2 |
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04-30-2013, 12:43 PM | #3 |
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I was more surprised that the first website was hosted on a NeXT computer than anything else. I'd figured it would've been some kind of UNIX server or maybe a crusty old "compact" Mac.
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And a hip hip hoorah to WWW!!!
And a special thank you to Tim Berners Lee and team at Cern .... who freely gave the fruits of their labour to the world. (As an aside - I'd hate to think how the web would've developed had it been in the hands of Jobs or Gates) |
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Don't you mean Al Gore?
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05-01-2013, 04:38 AM | #6 |
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Besides the internet, he also invented ManBearPig
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05-01-2013, 05:33 AM | #9 |
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Just to be clear I might point out what I mean - that the invention and early development of the web was not in the hands of 'for profit first' types of people.
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05-01-2013, 05:34 AM | #10 |
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That is a good point. I'm sure things would be very different had it been developed by companies for profit.
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On a related point, I don't mind private enterprise providing net access or content; but I very much object to them providing both. It's a definite conflict of interest and very anti-consumer. It's time to bust 'em up. |
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05-01-2013, 08:40 AM | #14 | |
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(In case you're wondering why I'm placing so much emphasis on the web, noone really knew what would come of the Internet before that. After all, it was predominantly a soup of protocols that had clunky clients which were oriented towards information retrieval, correspondence, and file transfers. Even early versions of the web didn't go far enough beyond that for its future to be certain. But, apparently, it went far enough.) |
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