Charles Matthews wrote: > Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being > a list of firsts: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history > > Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was > earlier ... Where do they research these things? > > Charles > > >
Certainly not wikipedia... At least they credit Ward Cunningham. On the issue of Internet Cafés they perpetrate the canard that that Cyberia in London was in some sense the first one, when in fact it was inspired by the Finnish CompuCafe. Never mind the way earlier implementations mentioned in [[Internet Café]]. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (proud owner of CompuCafes beer robot value cards numbers 45 and 90) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
