Father of Internet (Al Gore) wins $1.2 million

[Alexvrb]

Ok, ok, so the Al Gore part wasn't strictly true. Anyway, the guy that actually IS credited with being the father of the internet (Tim Berners-Lee) has been awarded US $1.2 million dollars. Story

 

[mal]

Where does that Al Gore "story" about inventing the Internet come from?

 

[Dud]

Originally posted by mal@Jun 16, 2004 @ 08:59 PM

Where does that Al Gore "story" about inventing the Internet come from?

At one point, I believe Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet.

 

[ExCyber]

He didn't claim that he invented the Internet. In an interview he sort of tried to take some peripheral credit for helping create the conditions that allowed the Internet to come about, and various people misquoted him and quoted him out of context in such a way that made it look like he was claiming credit for the whole thing, and now "Al Gore invented the Internet" has become a household phrase.

edit: More info on the Gore interview and its mangling.

Incidentally, the guy who typically gets called "Father of the Internet" is Vint Cerf. Berners-Lee is the "Father of the World Wide Web".

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

Originally posted by Alexvrb+Jun 16, 2004 @ 03:28 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alexvrb @ Jun 16, 2004 @ 03:28 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Ok, ok, so the Al Gore part wasn't strictly true. Anyway, the guy that actually IS credited with being the father of the internet (Tim Berners-Lee) has been awarded US $1.2 million dollars. Story[/b]

<!--QuoteBegin-ExCyber@Jun 17, 2004 @ 02:00 AM

He didn't claim that he invented the Internet. In an interview he sort of tried to take some peripheral credit for helping create the conditions that allowed the Internet to come about, and various people misquoted him and quoted him out of context in such a way that made it look like he was claiming credit for the whole thing, and now "Al Gore invented the Internet" has become a household phrase.

edit: More info on the Gore interview and its mangling.

Incidentally, the guy who typically gets called "Father of the Internet" is Vint Cerf. Berners-Lee is the "Father of the World Wide Web".[/quote]

Hmm, it looks like this misquoting thing happened again at the beginning of this thread.

 

[Alexvrb]

Sorry if I tend to use internet up in my speech and writing instead of world wide web.

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

Tim Berners-Lee receives knighthood

On Friday 16 July, the father of the World Wide Web became Sir Tim Berners-Lee in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The original World Wide Web emerged from a project at the CERN physics institute in Geneva, Switzerland. It was designed to make it easier for scientists to share research papers with links to references. It was originally implemented on a research network that grew into the Internet. For details see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3899723.stm

Originally posted by BBC NEWS

SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE

• Born in London in 1955
  
• Read physics at Queen's College, Oxford
  
• Banned from using university PC for hacking
  
• Built own computer with old TV, a Motorola microprocessor and soldering iron
  
• Created web in late 1980s and early 1990s at Cern
  
• Offered it free on the net
  
• Founded World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994
  
• Named by Time magazine as one of the top 20 thinkers of the 20th century
  
• Knighted in 2003
  

:thumbs-up:

 

[Runik]

Originally posted by MasterAkumaMatata@Jul 21, 2004 @ 06:39 AM

* Created web in late 1980s and early 1990s at Cern

* Offered it free on the net

This two are related ? Isn't it a bit weird ?

You create something, and you put this something for free on the same something

 

[antime]

"net" == "Internet", not "World Wide Web".

 

[Runik]

Originally posted by antime@Jul 21, 2004 @ 08:28 AM

"net" == "Internet", not "World Wide Web".

Ok, my bad

 

[Alexvrb]

So essentially, you're saying that he was a l337 h4x before 133t existed? OMG!!112

I should be a h4x0r and get lots of money.