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[Black Sheep]

Thank you, Tim.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/25-years-of-the-world-wide-web-the-inventor-of-the-web-tim-bernerslee-explains-how-it-all-began-9185040.html

[NewtronStar]

Sorry Tim I enjoyed those days before the Internet, those old modems that dialled to someones elses modem at there house, I do miss the 2400 bauds sound 

my favourite sound of the late 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFzUVkXi7uk

[burakkucat]

Minor correction. The World Wide Web is not the Internet. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web!

TBL invented the World Wide Web -- which runs on top of the Internet, using the latter as its "carrier".

[sevenlayermuddle]

Minor correction. The World Wide Web is not the Internet. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web!

TBL invented the World Wide Web -- which runs on top of the Internet, using the latter as its "carrier".

So far as I can ascertain, and happy to be proven wrong... the analogy would be that after various other people invented the trains, airoplanes and vans by which your mail is delivered, as well as the paper on which letters are written, and after that sysyem had been well proven, TBL's equivalent contribution would be the system of postcodes that makes addresses more unique.   

[burakkucat]

b*cat smiles at 7LM's analogy and remembers the days before http://www., etc, existed. 

[NewtronStar]

Minor correction. The World Wide Web is not the Internet. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web!

TBL invented the World Wide Web -- which runs on top of the Internet, using the latter as its "carrier".

Ok BC but your gonna get funny looks if you say check the World Wide Web these days as most of us call it the Internet, time for a course of deworming tablets/spot on 

[GigabitEthernet]

He's a lecturer at the University of Southampton. Because of him, they have their own course, called Web Science!

[sevenlayermuddle]

Sometimes I wonder if a UK/USA deal was struck some time, along the lines of "we'll let you invade (wherever), and apply trade sanctions (wherever), we'll even help you".   

The deal would have been qualified, our only condition is that, to boost our national morale you allow us, through carefully chosen words, to propagate the myth that a Brit invented the Internet. 

[sevenlayermuddle]

I should at this point also confess to a vested interest as, like many others, I was involved in implementation of networking protocols in the 1970s and 1980s, long before the tabloids would have us believe that TBL invented them.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_protocols

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

There are some deserving Brits who deserve better recognition for the roles that they played in global networking, IMHO one such being a man named <name removed> for datalink, from which modem technology and arguably DSL evolved.    But oddly, I never heard of TBL until quite recently.   

[burakkucat]

. . . time for a course of deworming tablets/spot on 

b*cat scratches out a flea in the general direction of N. Ireland and then decides to have a quick nap. 

[burakkucat]

I should at this point also confess to a vested interest as, like many others, I was involved in implementation of networking protocols in the 1970s and 1980s, long before the tabloids would have us believe that TBL invented them.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_protocols

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

Ah yes, ARPANET.

There are some deserving Brits who deserve better recognition for the roles that they played in global networking, IMHO one such being a man named <name removed> for datalink, from which modem technology and arguably DSL evolved.

That is a name unknown to me and, thus, is due some research. 

I would suggest that Donald Davies was one of the key figures in global networking.

[sevenlayermuddle]

That is a name unknown to me and, thus, is due some research. 

It was just one name that came to mind from many years ago, there were countless others who made it all possible.

I would suggest that Donald Davies was one of the key figures in global networking.

A worthy suggestion   

[roseway]

There are of course many significant contributors to the technology we have today, and they all deserve to be recognised for their achievements. But none of this takes anything away from the fact that Tim Berners-Lee put it all together into a complete working system, the system which is used all over the world. He certainly isn't the only person who should be so honoured, but what he did was certainly a milestone in technical advance.

The reason he gets all the credit is of course because even the tabloids and the BBC can understand roughly what the WWW does, but comparatively few people understand (or care about) what the supporting protocols do.

[Black Sheep]

Absolutely, Eric. TBL blazed the trail. 

[kitz]