'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US... We don't want that to happen again.'

[Rob Schaap]

>'Think of this as the Mark II Web,' said Professor Ian Halliday, who chairs
>the committee set up to investigate the building of the Grid. 'The first Web
>was invented by British scientists but exported to the United States. Now we
>have to buy back our access from Microsoft or Netscape. We don't want that
>to happen again.'

Well, someone here has to profess ignorance and surprise.  And I'm always a
likely candidate.

So, if the ARPAnet was not the foetal internet, and if that was not a US
DoD project that first saw the light of day in 1969, well, what's the real
story?

Cheers,
Rob.