Kudos for the Father of the Web

[jseal]

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has won a award which comes with a prize more that one million dollars.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3628321.stm

[osuche]

Wonderful to see this man getting recognition

[Booger]

you mean it wasn't Gore

[thedog]

How interesting.

No! -- It wasn't Al Gore. I remember when he made that remark. And he was serious! Funny.

But back in the late 70s I was working with ATT on the predecessor, ARPANet, the defense departments original idea to connect several university's reseacrh departments together to share statistical and research information. It was simply called ARPA then.

That spread from the original five universities to many. And the protocols used on the net today are the same ones developed for use in ARPANet.

Back then it was a text-only network -- personal computers didn't exist. They were just "dumb" terminals connected by modems (2400 - 4800 bits per second modems were speed demons then).

Christ I'm old!!!!

[jseal]

thedog,

I'll challenge you to a wheelchair race - although I prefer to think that I have a wealth of experience to draw upon.

I still remember the excitement! There were no limits, and it couldn't be killed! And 1200 baud was quite respectable.