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Re: They're at it again...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Fri Mar 12 18:14:46 1999

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:11:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net,
	nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199903121912.OAA22996@eagle.aitken.com>

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jeff Aitken wrote:

> Now that all these folks have laid claim to inventing the Internet,
> I wonder who will take the credit (blame?) for inventing the web?

Microsoft, of course.  Give people a year or so of the "your desktop is
the web / the web is your desktop" mantra and it will seem quite natural
that Microsoft invented the web.  I mean most people think they invented
the "General Protection Fault", right?

Charles

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> --Jeff
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