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I have no doubt we’d have gotten basically the same thing within five years from elsewhere if CERN didn’t exist.
by orhmeh09 4y ago
I have no doubt we’d have gotten basically the same thing within five years from elsewhere if CERN didn’t exist.
- dehrmann 4y agoGopher came slightly after WWW, so I'm not sure how much influence WWW had on it, but it makes me think you're right. Other people were working in the problem space.
- kensai 4y agoIt came because it was somewhere inspired. WWW was the initial spark. And it could have only come in some big time, blue sky lab.
- lupire 4y agoGopher came first. Berners-Lee used gopher while we was developing WWW. https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol/ https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph... But it doesn't matter. Lots of people all over the world were collaborating to build new Internet protocols.