If there's a limit on postings here i'm no doubt over it, sorry, but in fact what I was thinking of was that the WWW protocols were designed by an Englishman, whose name I've forgotten anyway but whose great contribution has been to make of the Web a sort of global IT commons (imagine if Bill had designed it). It is to this chap that we all owe so much, and of course to the English public school system which doubtless shaped him. But I'm happy to see that actually we invented the whole damn thing anyway, nuts and bolts and all. Hmmm.
Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
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> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Nathan Newman
> Sent: 22 May 2000 16:36
> To: lbo-talk at lists. panix. com
> Subject: Re: 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the
> US...We don't want that to happen again.'
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> Actually, the first working packet switching network was established by
> British scientists, working with the National Post Office (which ran their
> telecom in the 60s), on a pilot basis. They didn't do anything beyond the
> pilot at a single location, so ARPA created the first active non-pilot
> packet switching Net.
>
> So the article is not inaccurate, although it glosses over the
> contributions of US researchers that led to the British pilot project.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
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> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> > Right. Next you'll be telling us you invented Al Gore. Who
> come to think
> > of it does walk like a bit like a Royal robot . . .
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> > Manchurian Michael
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