Yeah, but expect to be buried for that. Everyone seems to enjoy elevating him to some kind of messiah status, but Berners-Lee just conceived a new way to implement a lot of preexisting concepts. He didn't really invent anything per se. It's a little like giving Steve Jobs credit for inventing the GUI. Both took preexisting ideas and saw how they could be used in an amazing new way. Kudos to Berners-Lee. He's brilliant, but anyone who says anything short of him fully inventing it all will be modded down by all the kiddies out there who don't realize that the Internet existed before the Web.
Heh that's easy..Queen: "someone write an email to my son"Someone: "ok, what do you want it to say"Queen: "you forgot mother's day you ungrateful *******"Someone: "ok, shall I send it from queen@england.com"Queen: "yes"And that is how you write an email without using a computer.
inkswampAug 7, 2006
Yeah, but expect to be buried for that. Everyone seems to enjoy elevating him to some kind of messiah status, but Berners-Lee just conceived a new way to implement a lot of preexisting concepts. He didn't really invent anything per se. It's a little like giving Steve Jobs credit for inventing the GUI. Both took preexisting ideas and saw how they could be used in an amazing new way. Kudos to Berners-Lee. He's brilliant, but anyone who says anything short of him fully inventing it all will be modded down by all the kiddies out there who don't realize that the Internet existed before the Web.
Closed AccountAug 7, 2006
Al Gore invented manbearpig and global warming. He's a renaissance man.
chicitoAug 7, 2006
Happy Birthday internet!A piece of paradise is just a double-click away.
hurricaneAug 7, 2006
WWWW?whats the 4th W for???
haploAug 7, 2006
@h00paj00 - I still hear the double you double you double you dot. And it's a piece of cake to redirect the www subdomain to the actual domain: <a class="user" href="http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/12/rewritingurlsforgoogle.html">http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/12/rewritingurlsforgoogle.html</a>Celebrate this day by dropping the www subdomain :-D.
darklaughingmanAug 7, 2006
I thought that only applies if you work for the government.
darklaughingmanAug 7, 2006
Heh that's easy..Queen: "someone write an email to my son"Someone: "ok, what do you want it to say"Queen: "you forgot mother's day you ungrateful *******"Someone: "ok, shall I send it from queen@england.com"Queen: "yes"And that is how you write an email without using a computer.
electrickidAug 8, 2006
Celebrated a day late. Fired up Lynx today, googled, found & then read Tim Berners-Lee's post. <a class="user" href="http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en&output=gplain">http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en&output=gplain</a>Read this with LYNX while listening to TWIT in the background. Man the net has come a long way.mrASSMAN's correct by the way. It's the www birthday, not the net.