Shawn wrote:
William Jones wrote:
England and by the way the yanks didn't invent the web it was an English
man - Tim Berners Lee.

He made the internet more user friendly and that's great, but it was
more evolutionary than revolutionary.
ARPANET was the real leap, and definitely made in the USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...f_the_Internet

.... but the first packet switched network was up and running at the
National Physical Laboratory (NPL), located at Teddington outside
London. The idea was then explained to the ARPANET guys at a conference.
That was the first they knew about it. The discussion was the basis of
TCP/IP.


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