Web inventor is 'Greatest Briton'

:ohmy:

This was better than the C5?

I am shocked.

I didn't know Al Gore was a Brit! :ohmy:

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Originally Posted by j2k4

I didn't know Al Gore was a Brit! :ohmy:

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:blink:

I have seen the "Al Gore invented" thing elsewhere. I just don't have the frame of reference that explains what clearly is a running joke in the US.

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Originally Posted by Biggles

:blink:

I have seen the "Al Gore invented" thing elsewhere. I just don't have the frame of reference that explains what clearly is a running joke in the US.

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Yes, it's true:

Al Gore was also known as the Running Joke, back in 2000.

He is loathe to lay proper claim to this, though.

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Originally Posted by j2k4

Yes, it's true:

Al Gore was also known as the Running Joke, back in 2000.

He is loathe to lay proper claim to this, though.

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:lol: :lol: oddly humorous :mellow:

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Originally Posted by Busyman

Tim did not invent the internet. To my knowledge he invented the www, HTML, HTTP protocol which basically is the "easy-to-use" part of the internet.

We have him to thank for the internet that we are familiar with but he did not lay the ground work.

We do have the US military or DARPA or ARPA whatever the fuck to thank for that.

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Busy's pretty much explained it :) The first four nodes of ARPANET started the base of it, the WWW and similar protocols took it out of just the military and the universities and brought it to the public. :)

What's remarkable though (yet for some reason isn't noted as much :( ) is what he did with the protocols - In a decade where BT claimed owning the patent on hyperlinks, you couldn't really have blamed Tim if he decided to charge in some way for using it. He didn't - He provided the protocols for all to use and has defended against anyone trying otherwise, and continues at the W3C setting standards. If that doesn't seem much, if you remember the old dial-up per minute charges think about paying every time you visit a web site ;)

There's been very few people who have revolutionised the way we live the way the internet has - And Tim Berners-Lee deserves the award (although whether it's a worthwhile award or complete bollocks is open for debate ;))