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I don't think Tim berners lee would ascribe his inventions to war making, nor CERN's. Just sayin'.
by knowtheory 15y ago
I don't think Tim berners lee would ascribe his inventions to war making, nor CERN's. Just sayin'.
- eru 15y agoI guess that's not what cheez wanted to imply.
- cheez 15y ago"In the 1950s, the United States Department of Defense was concerned about the ability to survive a nuclear first strike due to a dependence on an effective communication network. Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation concluded that the strongest communication system would be a computer network that would be able to break messages into units and that the network route these message units went along a functioning path to their destination, where they could be reassembled into coherent wholes." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#History
- jessedhillon 15y agoTim Berners Lee invented HTML. Don't cherry pick the one example that makes your point. A thousand other technologies make up the Internet and they didn't depend on war.
- georgemcbay 15y agoBut they all depend on TCP/IP.
- jessedhillon 15y agoSo what? They all depend on the sun, quantum-scale interactions between atoms, and on the evolution of life on Earth too. Those are just as arbitrary as any other point being made here.
- cheez 15y agoYou take things too seriously. All I was saying is that people scream for "government funding because look Internet, GPS". Both of these things were born out of war. I'm of the opinion they would have happened anyway.