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mikkel wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

CloakedStarship wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Internet was the Brits idea?

As far as I know, it all started with DARPA (or ARPA) NET in the 60s.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web.  Needless to say hes a Brit.

xRBLx wrote:

The making of it started in the EU by scientific community called CERN. To my understanding of it they didnt make it the public version we see today but rather started as networking and sharing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

Ok, the Internet in general, the basic concept, was started by DARPA. The world wide web (which is the Internet as we know it today), was indeed CERN.

It's just when Yahtzee said "Internet", I thought the very beginnings of it. But I guess he meant "World Wide Web".

The Internet was definitely -not- "invented" by the British. The Internet itself is more common sense than an invention, but the development of "the Internet", the core protocols, and the theory behind them, is down to DARPA.

The World Wide Web isn't the "Internet" - It's a set of protocols, mainly implemented for the purpose of creating standards for writing and transmitting graphical interfaces for host machines across a network. Anyone possessing the mental acuity needed to scratch their ass would be able to see that need, and many people did. The standards adopted just happened to be developed chiefly by some guy who happened to be British.

Attributing the invention of the Internet to the British because of this really comes across as a desperate attempt to take credit for something that the British had absolutely nothing to do with.

FatherTed wrote:

mikkel wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Ok, the Internet in general, the basic concept, was started by DARPA. The world wide web (which is the Internet as we know it today), was indeed CERN.

It's just when Yahtzee said "Internet", I thought the very beginnings of it. But I guess he meant "World Wide Web".

The Internet was definitely -not- "invented" by the British. The Internet itself is more common sense than an invention, but the development of "the Internet", the core protocols, and the theory behind them, is down to DARPA.

The World Wide Web isn't the "Internet" - It's a set of protocols, mainly implemented for the purpose of creating standards for writing and transmitting graphical interfaces for host machines across a network. Anyone possessing the mental acuity needed to scratch their ass would be able to see that need, and many people did. The standards adopted just happened to be developed chiefly by some guy who happened to be British.

Attributing the invention of the Internet to the British because of this really comes across as a desperate attempt to take credit for something that the British had absolutely nothing to do with.

Google "satire".

then delete your post.

Last edited by mikkel (2008-03-16 09:13:13)