“During a lecture last night at the Royal Society in London, Tim Berners-Lee revealed that he invented the World Wide Web using a NeXT computer. He presented his lecture using Apple’s OS X Web browser Safari on a PowerBook. He also referenced the Web’s potential by talking about the possibilities of iCal, Apple’s calendar program,” Simon Jary reports for Macworld UK.
Jary reports, “Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1990 while working at CERN, the European laboratory for Particle Physics. He designed the universal resource locator, or URL, which gives each Web page a unique address, and HTML, the basic language that allowed Web pages to be created. He wrote the first World Wide Web server “httpd” and the first hypertext browser “WorldWideWeb” for use at CERN in late 1990, and they were made available over the internet in the summer of 1991. The first Web browser worked only on the NeXT operating system, he told the audience. NeXTStep later became the basis for Mac OS X when Apple bought NeXT. Its boss Steve Jobs is now CEO of Apple.”
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Smart man.
That is very nice. Tim and Robert shared the same office (bdg 4) at the time.
For the record: Tim Berners-Lee AND Robert Cailliau invented the WWW at CERN. They worked at it together although Timothy did most of the hard stuff.
But wait… I thought Al Gore invented the internet, or was it Tipper.
Absolute rubbish!! I invented it, and everything else, ever. Including the wheel. And fire.
Well, for sure in those time they invented new ways to use the ‘intern’
Bill: you should not be on the net without cover. You know you are worn and frail… with all those viruses out there. You get infections so easily…
Stay home.
I invent the internet everytime I log on to it. …Because I use a Mac. Die PC die!
tim b-l did NOT invent the internet. he pioneered tcp/ip protocols. the internet was around long before he came along…developed by DARPA and the DoD