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I can’t let that pass without the necessary pedantry: the Internet long predated either contribution.
by macintux 4y ago
I can’t let that pass without the necessary pedantry: the Internet long predated either contribution.
- binarymax 4y agoIndeed, conflation of the web with the internet is a sticking point for me too! I'd like to shout out Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Yogen Dalal, and Carl Sunshine who made TCP for ARPANET: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc675 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc675
- fanf2 4y agoThe photo in this tweet sums it up nicely https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1204166408730361856 https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1204166408730361856
- dachryn 4y agoah well indeed, slip up of mine. I meant the World Wide Web, the WWW, as we know it. The idea of using the pre-existing internet (which did in fact exist as you say it) and how to shape messages on it to create something like the www, that was their actual invention. Take something, and use it in a creative new way, is basically what they did