Re: Testing my new newsreader...
- From: Uncle Dave <davidcovey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:19:11 -0700
On Aug 23, 6:29 pm, didgerman <didger...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Uncle Dave wrote:
On Aug 23, 5:12 pm, didgerman <didger...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Uncle Dave wrote:
On Aug 23, 1:53 pm, "mg" <nosp...@xxxxxxx> wrote:Indeed, our mg persisted that the web wasn't invented at CERN.....
"didgerman" <didger...@xxxxxxx> wrote in messagelol
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Dave Keegan wrote:No, very wrong. So wrong that it's not worth correcting.
On Aug 23, 4:36 am, "mg" <nosp...@xxxxxxx> wrote:I believe it was mg that once said MIT invented the internet, or
"Devs" <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messageNo, it's called internet for Dummies not Newbies.
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In message <slXyi.24475$4A1.16...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mgYeah, coz I'm so new to the internet, lol.
<nosp...@xxxxxxx> writes
Test post... lolWell done. You can now turn to page 2 of "The internet for dummies".
Test Match Rugby, it is ruined.
Hows that for netiquette devlin, you kilt wearing nancy.
I'm afraid you proved Pete's point for him...
Keegan...
something.
Whatever it was, I've always known his IT skills amount to posting on
RSRU, after that it goes tits up....
UD
Well, it depends doesn't it? If you recognise that what makes the web
works is hyperlinks those were in use some time before the web and BT
apparently applied for a patent for them in the 1970s.
Or so they say. Would you believe a room full of Tories after a few easy
quid?
Anyway, hyperlinks, http, and tcp/ip, html.... all equally relevant. But
the idea of making it all work together and user friendly was B-Lee's baby.
And that's *not* from wikipedia.....
The web was
the coming together of a number of things and without the internet it
wouldn't have worked.
As to where the internet came from, it's definitely not as simple as
people (e.g. in Wikipedia) think and depends on how you define
"network" and whether you're a yank or a European. For example, SITA
had an international network by 1950 and the world's first worldwide
packet switching network by 1969. I would argue that telecomunicatons
networks are just as apposite to the history of the internet as
academic ones. As ever, the really clever inventions will be
overlooked - nobody knows who invented the wheel do they?
The academics had the time and inclination to do things for non-
commercial reasons and - more importantly were not reluctant to share
information which businessed were reluctant to do. The idea of a
company linking networks even with business partners was anathema even
by the time that such things as JANET and USENET came along.
Here endeth today's lesson.
Well mg will learn something....
lol
UD
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