Posted by Colin McFadyen on 10/12/06 15:52

In <egll04$ild$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu> Doug McDonald <mcdonald@SnPoAM_scs.uiuc.edu> writes:

>mv@movingvision.co.uk wrote:

>>
>> The Internet and the World Wide Web - International, Largely European


>utter bullshit.

>The Internet is an essentially US creation. It arose ... by
>a stroke of an American pen /// from the Arpanet, a US
>military program. I used what is now the internet in 1973,
>and used (and abused!) it heavily way back then. The actual
>code use today can be be traced all the way back to then.

Didn't Al Gore invent the Internet?

>The WWW, or rather the heart of it, the browsers, was
>largely thought of within two miles of where I sit now, in
>the US heartland.

Ever hear of CERN? The WWW project was initiated by Tim Berners-Lee
in 1989. Look it up.
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Colin McFadyen - Systems Support - colinm@ccs.carleton.ca
Carleton University Computing and Communications Services
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1S 5B6

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