[23377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: They're at it again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher E. Brown)
Wed Mar 17 16:52:14 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:56:20 -0900 (AKST)
From: "Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>,
"Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903121809490.12118-100000@shell.inch.com>
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 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?
Course not, they bought out the inventing company and added a
feature to all their software.
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