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

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon May 22 20:47:01 PDT 2000


Mark Jones said:


> 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

Isn't that the web you're talking about, though, rather than the internet? TCP/IP being the internet and HTTP being the web. Not only is that a later development, I was under the impression it was invented/developed at CERN in Switzerland. No?

Michael

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