On 11/10/16 7:39 PM, Razer wrote: > > On 11/10/2016 03:14 PM, Mr Harkness quoted some schmuck: > > >> Twenty-five years ago, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. > > I've seen this claim about a number of different people and you know? It's > about as ignorant a thing to say as I can imagine. One > person inventing the WWW... ROTF! > > MAYBE the TERM "WWW". > > Rr
There are a number of well-known cases of specific individuals inventing or co-inventing specific components of the Internet and protocols on it. TBL invented the World Wide Web in a core and well-known specific sense. Most of us have read all about it and a few of us were experiencing it real-time, switching from FTP, telnet, and Archie to Mosaic w/ web pages. Vint Cerf co-invented TCP/IP, commonly summarized as "invented the Internet". I don't know of anyone else who is said to have "invented the World Wide Web". There were people who earlier suggested some kind of linked shared information, like Ted Nelson. http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ sdw
