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Credit for Web development goes to Brit

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Actually, this is news to me, and will probably come as a bit of shock to some our American Cousins:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3899723.stm

Whilst the internet was an American Invention, the World Wide Web was actually invented by a Brit! In other words, the American figured out how to link computers together, but they didn't really get to the point where you could readily and easily browse information across the network. That clearly took real brains! Mind you he couldn't have been that bright if didn't cash in on the invention.

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It's not news to me; I've known that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web and is British from the time I first discovered the Web over ten years ago.

The article you linked isn't even anything new; it's over a year old.
 

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dtobias said:
It's not news to me; I've known that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web and is British from the time I first discovered the Web over ten years ago.

The article you linked isn't even anything new; it's over a year old.


My mistake, don't know how I dragged up something as old as that without noticing. Apologies.

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Yes, and what's more, he did it about half a mile from my home!

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, (or "Enquire Within Upon Everything" as he called it), whilst working at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), which is situated on the border between France and Switzerland, about 1/2 mile from my front door. One of their tunnels even runs under my house.

Even now, 15 year on, all the physicists still walk around with "CERN: Home of the World Wide Web" on their T-shirts! ;-)
 
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