Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born 8 June 1955) is an English computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN. He was ranked Joint First alongside Albert Hofmann in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and he is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Berners-Lee wrote WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer during the second half of 1990, while working for CERN. The first successful build was completed on December 25, 1990
No, see Gore was on some committee that provided extra funding to the Internet or something, and he wasn't even in Congress back when the Web's granddaddy DARPA created the Internet back in 1969.
Anyway the Internet is more than just the Web, and things like USENET and IRC and e-mail existed long before the WWW; hell even Internets worms existed before the Webbernets.
It's rather funny that some people truely think about the WWW as being the internet as a whole, and never stop to think that, for example, Skype or World of Warcraft don't use the WWW, yet they are connected to the internet and use it to communicate to others, and how that is possible.
(I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people ask questions like "do I need to have internet explorer running in order to use skype?")
(I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people ask questions like "do I need to have internet explorer running in order to use skype?")
I love how some people tell you to "turn off the Internet" (==close the browser) to have better performance in online games. The use of words just creeps me out.
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ShinyDoofy wrote:
Warp wrote:
(I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people ask questions like "do I need to have internet explorer running in order to use skype?")
I love how some people tell you to "turn off the Internet" (==close the browser) to have better performance in online games. The use of words just creeps me out.
The browser might be hogging resources, though.
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(I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people ask questions like "do I need to have internet explorer running in order to use skype?")
I love how some people tell you to "turn off the Internet" (==close the browser) to have better performance in online games. The use of words just creeps me out.
The browser might be hogging resources, though.
The point is that it's called the (web) browser, not the Internet connection.
It's a meme created by his political opponents, just like most of the more outrageous bad stuff you hear about politicians.
QFT: It's hard to remember nowadays, but Dubya was an anomaly, and most of the time you have to distort or even fabricate the truth to slam a politician.
Now after saying that, I should mention that it was defensible when Bush referred to the "Internets" and when Ted Stevens referred to the Internet as a "series of tubes" because originally "internet" referred to any large connected cluster of networks (now known as an intranet when not connected to the Internet) and the connections between computers have been referred to with tubular metaphors like how big a company's pipes are.
Finally, rofl: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Al_Gore
I can barely wait to see some hot hot Webbernets action.
