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He literally invented the 'WWW'.
by Bootvis 10y ago
He literally invented the 'WWW'.
- protist 10y agoNothing about it was original or invented.
- brlewis 10y agoThe world benefits more from effectiveness than from originality. Building on existing work is a good thing.
- castis 10y agoWhy not contribute to the conversation and tell us why what we're reading is incorrect?
- scott_karana 10y agoHe did: Gopher also does hyperlinking, and was a contemporary (1991 public releases) The still-used command line browser Lynx was first made for Gopher in fact, before being adapted for HTTP, which it still does.
- olavk 10y agoGopher were not hypertext. It had hierarchical menus which were separate from the plain text files.
- tbkamps 10y agoThe question raised be the GP is whether the amount of originality deserves a Turing Award, given the other things (TCP/IP is even missing from his list) that either make the WWW possible or are similar to it.
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