Do you know who invented the web ?

[Guilbert]

Many of us use the web on a daily basis, but how many of you know who invented it?

At this point I should say that the "internet" is not the same as the "world wide web" or "web".

The internet network (many computers connected together) has been going since the late 1960s and 1970s, but the world wide web (or web) - where you use a browser and use web sites and hyperlinking - did not start till late 1980s and early 1990s.

Well the man who invented the web was an Englishman, and he is called Tim Berners Lee (now Sir Tim Berners Lee).

He was working in CERN in Switzerland at the time (home of the Hadron Collider) and invented the web and browser for a way for people in CERN (and other places) to share documents and easily hyperlink to other documents and other computer sites.

He made his idea for the web "free", with no patent and no royalties, to encourage its growth (good on him).

So we all have Tim Berners Lee to thank that we can all use the web.

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[ECG1]

Although he didn't "invent" the internet, Al Gore "created" the internet.

[Guilbert]

>Although he didn't "invent" the internet, Al Gore "created" the internet.

It is stretching things a whole lot to say Gore "created" the interent.

He was just one small cog in thousands of people who helped put together what is now the internet network (and his contribution was mostly funding rather than technical).

As a politician, and a person interested in computers, he did get involved in some of the funding for computer and internet projects. For example funding he provided helped to create Mosaic, the first browser to get mass use.

However the early internet started in the 1960s and 1970s, way before Al Gore could have had any influence on it.

If Al Gore had never lived the internet would still probably be where it is today, although he did help push it along a little bit.

[one eyed jack]

Porn made the internet what it is today.

So kudos to the man who invented it but the man who put porn on the internet and caused the massive bums rush of sales to computers and broadband packages is who should be getting the pat on the back and complimentary blow job.

I think the future is going to have such an impact on western human development that its already becoming a problem now, social insecurity, obesity and all kinds of problems.

I was watching a programme recently comparing fitness levels with kids to those in the 50's

Todays kids came no where near and this is going to be really bad for the future of our kids.

All that meek shall inherit the earth stuff? Its true, those poor hungry kids running round barefoot in african/ asian countries will be the new fit ones, genetically as we bury ourselves in computers, junk food and facebook profiles and all the creature comforts that make us fat.

I should know of course but at least Im doing something about it

[Peter]

Guilbert wrote:


> It is stretching things a whole lot to say Gore "created" the
> interent.

Not like Al Gore to mislead people is it?

[mp3]

Kids being unfit today has been influenced more by the moral panic over pedophiles and kiddy fiddlers as parents are now afraid to let their children play outside, along with the government putting up no football signs on every piece of green and finally selling school playing fields to Redrow and the like.

Do you honestly believe that children in Africa that struggle to get 2 good meals a day are fitter than slight overweight children over here?

[planeterotica]

The Internet is yesterdays news as The Grid takes over.

[BGAFD Admin]

Grid Caf?

[one eyed jack]

Do you honestly believe that children in Africa that struggle to get 2 good meals a day are fitter than slight overweight children over here?

I agree. Not in their present condition but hardship usually give survivors that added edge in determination and ambition.

For example, statistically, foreign students do better than domestic students.

Im not a big fan of stats but you just have to see how our youth in this country take their education for granted and see how others abroad have a yeaning to learn and usually in far more shitty conditions

[belfast_birty]

The 'web' was originally ''arpanet'' a US Govt invention,aimed at reassuring comms in the event of a nuclear strike.Tim B-L invented a way of browsing it and html mark up language.