You know, it seems to me that I remember some Sun Microsystems
advertisement several years ago where *they* claim to have invented
networking (now I see their current claim to fame is that they are
the '.' in '.com' :-).
Now that all these folks have laid claim to inventing the Internet,
I wonder who will take the credit (blame?) for inventing the web?
--Jeff
ncsa
Sure, they can claim to be the dot. Keep in mind that of the whole .com,
the dot is the smallest most insignificant portion of it. 
Now that all these folks have laid claim to inventing the Internet,
I wonder who will take the credit (blame?) for inventing the web?
Microsoft, of course. Give people a year or so of the "your desktop is
the web / the web is your desktop" mantra and it will seem quite natural
that Microsoft invented the web. I mean most people think they invented
the "General Protection Fault", right?
Charles
Berners-Lee ??
Now that all these folks have laid claim to inventing the Internet,
I wonder who will take the credit (blame?) for inventing the web?Berners-Lee ??
indeed, tbl deserves much credit for html and the client/server model and
implementation.
but hypertext, links, etc. were described by vanevar busch (sp?) in 1948.
undoubtedly the sociopaths of the time excoriated him for it.
randy
Course not, they bought out the inventing company and added a
feature to all their software.
They did.
(ObNetOps: Be glad Microsoft doesn't build routers.)
If you read between the lines, there, I think Sun is actually claiming
to get <between> you and the Internet (or at least the TLDs). *smirk*
Russell
indeed, tbl deserves much credit for html and the client/server model and
implementation.
Or SGML, derived from IBM's GML as one product solution to various
attempts by the Pentagon to specify a generalized markup language back
in the 70's.
but hypertext, links, etc. were described by vanevar busch (sp?) in 1948.
undoubtedly the sociopaths of the time excoriated him for it.
Ted Nelson is usually given a lot of credit for putting hypertext into
a recognizeable computer framework around 1961, he coined the term.
Vannevar Busch's article, which I've read, certainly saw the shadows
on the walls of the cave though I'm not entirely certain he wasn't
just taking a baby step forward from the 1930's era Hollerith card
crime data bank the FBI had built to match MO's and fingerprints etc.
You can see the FBI stuff in old B&W crimebuster movies where they'll
cut to grainy file footage of thousands of punchcards being sorted
noisily in those large sorters as the G-men mercilessly hunt down
their man, and the answer punches out on the KSR-33 in the local
office...