Where are you from ?

bumper wrote:

I thought this newsgroup was for Americans ONLY . . . what the heck are
all you foreigners doing on here?
Well, you're obviously mistaken then, arn't you? This is an international
group. I don't see any "us" or "usa" in the name, do you?

André

André Somers wrote:
bumper wrote:

I thought this newsgroup was for Americans ONLY . . . what the heck are
all you foreigners doing on here?

Well, you're obviously mistaken then, arn't you? This is an international
group. I don't see any "us" or "usa" in the name, do you?

No, no, Andre. He's not Dutch, he's American. He's joking.

And they never do put US or USA in. It's like English postage stamps.
They don't say the country because they invented it. We're all their
guests really.

....and you forgot to say Netherlands.

GC
(New South Wales - a country like Texas but flatter)


André

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


"Graeme Cant" wrote in message
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André Somers wrote:
bumper wrote:

I thought this newsgroup was for Americans ONLY . . . what the heck are
all you foreigners doing on here?

Well, you're obviously mistaken then, arn't you? This is an
international
group. I don't see any "us" or "usa" in the name, do you?

No, no, Andre. He's not Dutch, he's American. He's joking.

And they never do put US or USA in. It's like English postage stamps.
They don't say the country because they invented it. We're all their
guests really.

...and you forgot to say Netherlands.

GC
(New South Wales - a country like Texas but flatter)


André

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

Shawn

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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USA

John Roe AKA "Zulu Romeo"

www.roenation.com

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

Shawn
And here all along I thought some spider invented it a LONG time
ago. :-)
...lew...

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

....but USENET, where you are now, is much older than the Web. I don't
know who invented it or where.

Oh yeah, In in the UK: Essex.

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gregorie. |
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