Now, the real news here is something else: He won an award!
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Berners-Lee was declared the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize, which is provided by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. ? Berners-Lee, who won a prize of one million euros (£671,064 or $1,209,190.22), now works at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston.
Umm... was not the internet based on the communication net between US armed forces bases / universities? And was it not "invented" by a large group of people that did not intend it for the purpose that we use it for today?
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Originally posted by pfflam
MAC
ahem...MAC?
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
ahem...MAC?
we'll assume he was shouting it and doesn't think that 'Mac' is an acronym.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
ahem...MAC?
Yes...I saw it too. You beat me to the punch this time.
Say it with me now.
Mac = Macintosh, as in the computer.
MAC = Media Access Control
Now, the real news here is something else: He won an award!
Berners-Lee was declared the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize, which is provided by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. ? Berners-Lee, who won a prize of one million euros (£671,064 or $1,209,190.22), now works at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston.
More power to this man!
The Internet != The WWW.
my bad.
Originally posted by pfflam
MAC
Of Course he does? what else could he possibly use!?!?!??!1/1/1/1?!?!?!?!?!?!
PS