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Subject: World Wide Web Sun May 31, 2009 9:17 am
How many are under the impression that the WWW was an American invention?
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Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
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Subject: Re: World Wide Web Sun May 31, 2009 1:47 pm
Strange, but I just read about that elsewhere. Americans do tend to think everything is invented here.
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thehairymob Four Star Member
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Subject: Re: World Wide Web Sun May 31, 2009 3:26 pm
Didn't the American military have a network set up in the sixties or seventies that Berners-Lee used as a template for the foundation which the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is based on?
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domenic Pappalardo Four Star Member
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Subject: Re: World Wide Web Sun May 31, 2009 5:13 pm
Within ten years, the people of the world will be sitting in front of a computer...on the WWW, receiving the days instructions from Obama.
As for me, I will be sitting in a cave in the high desert, reading something, that if caught, I will be shot for reading...a book.
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