“The European research facility, where the World Wide Web was invented, is 50 years old today. CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is host to the world’s largest lab dedicated to particle physics,” Macworld UK reports. “While its principal function is gather information from a massive underground complex in which atoms are smashed together at high speeds in order to understand the beginning of the universe, its by-product of inventing the Web is far more well known.”
“British-born Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a hypertext program to make it easier to organize, link and browse information on the Internet via a user-friendly means. During a lecture last year at the Royal Society in London, Berners-Lee revealed that he invented the World Wide Web using a NeXT computer. He presented his lecture using Apple’s OS X Web browser Safari on a PowerBook, and referenced the Web’s potential by talking about the possibilities of iCal, Apple’s calendar program,” Macworld UK reports.
Full article here.
Wow! Apple is at the core of understanding the beginning of the universe.
Steve Jobs is god didn’t you know? I want him to have my childrens!
Europe is Best!
C’mon, people, don’t you all know that Al Gore invented the internet, UNIX, and the iPod. How else do ya think he got a job with Apple to begin with?
NOT ON THE SUBJECT AT ALL!
Apple just bumped up .mac to 250mb and a 10mb of email attachments.
Nice. My free Yahoo! account only has 100MB and 10MB respectively.
Am I right in thinking Seahawk works at CERN? Or are you not allowed to tell us?
The internet is alive and well ..???
Wow !! … someone should tell this .. Chicken Little.. LOL !
mac dood:
Is this a spoof? How does Whitehead suppose that one does get connected worldwide?
The internet is simply the electronic road on which packets of information travel. This is like suggesting that interstate highways are doomed to historical irrelevancy because of drunk drivers causing death and injury.
Lets get rid of the “drunk drivers” such as Windows users. Happy motoring, Mac heads.
I read an interview with Berners-Lee years ago in which he stated (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) that he wrote the proposal for the Web so that he could justify his request for a NeXT box to his superiors at CERN. Amusing and interesting guy. He is one of my innovation heroes.
meat of moose….
Spoof ? …..
Well, I cant imagine this guy was actually serious….
But on the other hand…. we have people like Thurott around…. and he thinks hes not only serious…but relevent as well ..
The funny thing is that Al Gore never said he invented the internet – right wingers just like to expound upon their adgenda of personal slander over dealing with real issues.
G-Spank…
So true, so true…. the current political climate proves your point !!
EMINEM, ha!
Start at the back…MEN
Pull it back a bit…IN
Push forward again…ME
LOL!
I’ve too much time!
If we had knew back then what kind of crap you guys would post in the www, we would have never invented it.
Hehe…
Right, Gore didn’t say that. What he did say, however, was “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” So, he didn’t say he invented it, just that he created it.
G-Spank:
Right, Al Gore did not invent the internet, he just �took the initiative in creating” the internet. Like most politicians, Al Gore took credit for other peoples� successes no matter how peripheral or marginal his actual involvement.
Gore apparently made popular the term �information superhighway�, but terms to describe data transfer processes, such as �data highway�, were used years in before Gore speculated what the future world of computer technologies would bring. Al had originally written that the internet would be useful in linking only supercomputers and not yours or my lowly personal computer.
Most sane and intelligent people certainly recognize that Al Gore had as much direct involvement in development of the internet as Bill Gates had in the design of the G5 iMac. It�s just fun to poke fun at deranged politicians who over rate their own skills, competencies, and accomplishments. If you can forgive Al Gore for his exaggerations, perhaps you can forgive me for mine.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18390,00.html
Wingsy:
Obviously “creating” something takes more skill and demonstrates greater accomplishment than “inventing” something.
Not only has Al Gore been elevated to employee of Apple he has also achieved supernatural powers. However, having supernatural powers why couldn�t Al Gore have anticipated the fate of the 2000 election and exercised his sovereignty and creative powers to win the election?
I love Macs and have used them since regularly since 1985. I want to see everyone have a chance to check them out, and as such am kind of disturbed at how often it seems that discussion threads on this board devolve into right/left political sniping. Could we try to keep the politics out of it? There are plenty of boards and blogs out there for that.
However having seen this particular meme propagated one too many times, I think it bears pointing out the entire Gore quote in context, which has been misquoted and excerpted by his detractors for a long time. As referenced at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200406020007
…Gore, as much as anyone else (and perhaps more) really did take the legislative initiative in helping to bring to birth the Internet. Gore was a major supporter of the technological research that helped convert the military communications system, Arpanet, into what is now the Internet. Vinton Cerf, often called “the father of the Internet” and even Newt Gingrich, have vouched for Gore’s key legislative role in helping to shepherd the Internet to life.
Rheinhard:
The �meme� is that Al Gore suffers a particular mental illness. This is a debatable subject.
The truth is that Al Gore over exaggerated his involvement in the development of the internet. This is a documented fact.
It is more likely that some anonymous interns originally wrote the bill that Gore presented; and that this bill was modified by several persons in subcommittee, modified again by several persons in committee, and modified a third time before passing both houses of congress and signed by the president.
I don�t question Gore�s participation in pushing funding for ARPANET, I just think that many more people where involved in the process, and that Gore is either too narrow minded or too arrogant to rightfully acknowledge the participation of many of these other people.
Rheinhard:
Remember, Al Gore’s “initiative” had less to do with using iTMS or sending e-mail to granny, it was intended to provide the government and military a means to communicate in the event of a national disaster or disseminate battle orders.
Google and Yahoo have as much to do with the initial development of the internet as you do logging into NSA, Cheyenne Mountain, and ECHELON.
Al Gore had absolutely NO clue that the familiar internet of today would be anything but a government project and not a commercial enterprise.
Yeah sure, Al Gore took more credit than he deserved in his statement. On the other hand, he did have a lot to do with what we are typing on today. But hey, a Republican would never, ever, in a million years, give a him an “atta boy” for it.
In fact, most republicans, like our meat of moose, just repeat what their spin machines turn into slander without any thought or respect. I’m sure he said “flip flop” many times in this past year.
Very good, Al Gore, you did a fine job. (Insert applause here.)
I respect your efforts, as I do all other people, who shared in the editing and voted for the bill that released taxpayer money for the development of the top secret military-government computer-based satellite-based communication network that now exists. (Insert a couple of whoo-hoos here.)
And, I say “Kudos” to all the people, companies, and businesses in the free world that allow people like G-Spank to blog on the web. (Insert a few cheers here.)
Well, G-Spank, I suppose that this makes you either a liar or an idiot. So, which one are you?
“European research facility where the WWW was born” ??? What the hell? Europe invented the internet? BULLSHIT! LOL!