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Poland broke Enigma? Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale? CERN is not a country. Neither is Tim Berners Lee for that matter.
by djohnston 3y ago
Poland broke Enigma? Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale?
CERN is not a country. Neither is Tim Berners Lee for that matter.
- defrost 3y agoSpecifically Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski - they even built the first bombe machines which were scaled up at Bletchley park. > Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale? More the common mythology about Turing that gets repeated by people that never checked the details. Bletchley Park was real and people like Bill Tutte cracked encryption methods more difficult than Enigma. Tim Berners Lee alone, without being part of a vast group that adopted and used WWW, wasn't sufficient for WWW to take hold. There were many proto markup attempts, he authored one but it needed soil to grow, s/soil/CERN/.