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Weird to think this was what the internet/www was designed for from day one..
by xd 8y ago
Weird to think this was what the internet/www was designed for from day one..
- betterunix2 8y agoI think that is an urban legend, along the lines of "the Internet was created to survive nuclear attacks." AFAIUI the Internet was created to unify various predecessor networks (NSFNet, ARPANET, etc.), and as an experiment in computerized communications. Sharing research data may have been an early application of the Internet or its predecessors, but I am not so sure it was the driving purpose of the project.
- antod 8y agoIn fairness they did also mention the www as well as the internet. Tim Berners Lee definitely had sharing academic data in mind with the web. So they were half right.
- antod 8y agoI shoulda said 'research data' instead of 'academic data'. Fits better with the discussion topic and TBL's purpose.