TIL that Tim Berners-Lee created the internet when he was 25, without him there would be no reddit, how come he's not as much popular as Bill Gates?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-LeePosted Apr 13, 2010, 3:07 AM UTC
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Yah, he didnt create the internet, that already existed. What he created was a platform that USES the internet. which was HTTP (and HTML) which allowed a universal language that everyone could use...
he also didnt make huge sums of money out of it, because he didnt put patents on anything. He has made money out of it, but only through speeches and donations.
Also as a side note microsoft scoft at the internet and said it was unimportant and largely ignored it, untill it became too big for them to ignore it.
Internet = The connections
World Wide Web = Uses the internet
(on the most basic of levels)
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The president of Finland gave him a million euros.. thats means that Conan O'brien has blessed him.
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Because he doesn't have the same amount of money.
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But there is only one internet, and there is microsoft, ubuntu, mac...
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In that comment i did not say talk about invention but about the matter or the internet and the operating systems, and thank you for calling me that it's the nicest thing someone ever said to me =)
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A NeXT computer was used as the first WWW server. So says the linked wikipedia article.
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He did not create the internet.
What he did create was the World Wide Web, consisting of the HTTP protocol and the HTML markup language, on top of the internet protocol stack (TCP/IP).
Jon Postel is probably the guy most deserving of the title 'creator of the internet'.