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A distributed file sharing system (later known as the Internet) was Tim Behrners Lee's side project at CERN for a while too :) He was only allowed to take his
by salesguy222 9y ago
A distributed file sharing system (later known as the Internet) was Tim Behrners Lee's side project at CERN for a while too :)
He was only allowed to take his 20% project to 100% after his manager wrote up a justification XD
- _jal 9y ago> later known as the Internet My turn to be pedantic, I guess, but 80 and 443 are only two of many available ports. The internet is much bigger than just the web, even if lots of people never bother to look beyond their browser.
- salesguy222 9y agoPedantry is fine by me when accurate and done in the spirit of learning more nuance about a subject :)
- hossbeast 9y agoAn important clarification
- NamTaf 9y agoIf you ever get to go to Geneva, swing by the CERN exhibit. There's the original fileserver, complete with 'This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!!' scrawled on tape stuck over the power button. There's also his paper describing the WWW with the feedback of his manager written across the top: "vague but interesting...". It's kind of comforting to know that my academic and computing experiences thus far are shared both across the globe and across decades.
- salesguy222 9y agoHaha "vague but interesting". Isn't it amazing how big of a disconnect there is between "people who are capable of identifying/executing on big ideas" (aka Tim and his manager).... and "the projects that businesses/agencies want their employees to do"
- ianai 9y agoEspecially when, in hindsight, it's anything but vague.
- remael 9y agoTo be pedantic, he wrote "Vague, but exciting". See http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html for more info.