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Posted by: US Backer (Saturday 1 October 2005, 4:52 AM)

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Steve J:

"Er, a lot of the basic infrastructure that we call the Internet was invented in Switzerland by an Englishman "

oh, i always wondered who that "Darpa" guy was. huh. i guess he was a bloke like us. that's good to know.

the www was created by a CERN employee. the internet is not the www. the US's DARPA created the internet.

go here and learn:

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~c9814405/cp2014/howwastheinternetinvented.htm

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_summary.htm

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blinternet.htm

etc. etc. etc. you can do a google search as easily as i can.

i *did* like your WMD joke. that was pretty funny.

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