Jonathan Finn
Posts: 10
Nickname: lucretius
Registered: Jun, 2006
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Re: I Believe in Design
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Posted: Nov 24, 2009 3:52 PM
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> Britain produced the entire industrial revolution? That's > news to me.
It did too. Quoth Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution : "The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in the United Kingdom. The changes subsequently spread throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was eventually influenced in some way."
> As for WWW. Ok, Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML which is > simply a ripoff/modified version of SGML which was > invented by IBM. He did invent the HTTP protocol but it > runs on top of technology developed in the US. Of course, > the internet itself comes from the US.
Sure, TBL gets credit for the WWW not the Internet. But credit where credit's due: many people claim they could have/should have invented something like the WWW, but only he produced his scheme and actually got it to take off. It would be foolish to say it was a fluke: surely it was due to numerous shrewd choices and actions on his part.
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