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2006-11-06 Science & Technology

World Wide Web creator warns of cheats and liars (and bears, OH MY!)

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Posted by Zenster 2006-11-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Arise, THOLIAN Web + Galaxy/Federation-renowned Tholian punctuality, arise. SOSUS + GMOSUS > Can there be such a thing as MARXISM-HITLERISM or MARXISM-FASCISM a form of Leftism???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-06 02:30|| 2006-11-06 02:30|| Front Page Top

#2 But, but, but - I thought Al Gore invented the internet! He said he id, right? So, who's this guy trying to steal Al's thunder?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-06 02:49|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-06 02:49|| Front Page Top

#3 "The creator of the World Wide Web"

LOL! Maybe he and Al can share a padded cell.

Posted by anon 2006-11-06 06:02|| 2006-11-06 06:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Berners-Lee deserves the title 'creator of the Web' a whole lot more than Gore's absurd claim about the underlying Internet.

Gore was tangentially involved in the regulatory decision to spin the Arpanet to NIST and then out for public use as the Internet. It's grown a bunch since then.

Berners-Lee built upon work at Xerox PARC labs in hymperthreaded documents, plus the TCP/IP and ISO communications protocol stacks, in order to define HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), the basic protocol for requesting and receiving web pages over the Internet.

He and his team also selected a subset of DOD's Structured Graphical Markup Language (SGML) and added hyperlinks, calling the result HTML (hypertext markup language).

Together HTML and HTTP provide the basic technical framework for the Web, which of course uses the Internet in the same way that FedEx uses airports and the highway system.

Posted by lotp 2006-11-06 07:48|| 2006-11-06 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the Web in the early 1990s,

I was Gonna Snark about Algore being the true "Founder of the Internet" but 'Yall beat me to it.
Good Snark folks.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-11-06 19:45|| 2006-11-06 19:45|| Front Page Top

#6 It's good to know that until now we've been protected from fraudsters, liars and cheats. I know I'm looking forward to a lucrative retirement thanks to the payments I'll be receiving from the Hon. Mrs. Kwame Nkibada, wife of the former Nigerian Finance Minister.

And we certainly wouldn't want untruths spreading about the internet as they do on older, less robust technologies, such as television, where forgers can easily pass off word processed documents as typewritten.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-06 19:53|| 2006-11-06 19:53|| Front Page Top

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