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Re: They're at it again...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Mar 17 16:50:18 1999

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:42:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

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

indeed, tbl deserves much credit for html and the client/server model and
implementation.

but hypertext, links, etc. were described by vanevar busch (sp?) in 1948.
undoubtedly the sociopaths of the time excoriated him for it.

randy



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