Turning on the WWW

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• Reply 1 of 6

  anders Posts: 6,523member

  December 10, 2001 11:36AM

  [quote]Originally posted by THT:
  
  <strong>Read how World Wide Web got its start in the following article:
  
  
  
  <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-8104108-0.html?tag=tp_pr"; target="_blank">Turning on the World Wide Web</a>
  
  
  
  By Paul Festa
  
  Staff Writer, CNET News.com
  
  December 10, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT
  
  
  
  Relevence to AI: the WWW got its start on Steve Jobs' NeXT machines. Old news, but perhaps it'll be new to some here. Oh, and I guess physicists are useful afterall </strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  Apple should use it in their marketing: "We didn´t build MacOS X for the WWW. The WWW was build for MacOS X"
• Reply 2 of 6

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  December 10, 2001 12:40PM

  [quote]Originally posted by THT:
  
  <strong>Oh, and I guess physicists are useful afterall </strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  I'm glad you noticed.
• Reply 3 of 6

  tht Posts: 5,451member

  December 10, 2001 5:29PM

  <strong>Originally posted by Scott H.:
  
  I'm glad you noticed.</strong>
  
  
  
  You're a student, right? You still have hope!
• Reply 4 of 6

  cdhostage Posts: 1,038member

  December 10, 2001 5:48PM

  ARPANET forever baby!
• Reply 5 of 6

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  December 11, 2001 1:53AM

  [quote]Originally posted by THT:
  
  <strong>[qb]Originally posted by Scott H.:
  
  I'm glad you noticed.</strong>
  
  
  
  You're a student, right? You still have hope! [/QB]<hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  Only for another month or two.
• Reply 6 of 6

  eugene Posts: 8,254member

  December 11, 2001 4:55AM

  ARPANET may have been the progenitor of the Internet, but it wasn't the beginning of the Internet. NSFNET was the beginning, if you consider that's where TCP/IP showed up first.