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Just a question to all the Americans:
Do you know which Nation or company made the WWW?

(Yes I know who, but most Americans think other Americans made the WWW and that's damn wrong!)

yeah? have you met "most americans"?

I don't think a person per se "made the WWW". I know an American dude got credited for it, even though the textbook I've had (printed in US, can you believe it) states that there was a bunch of people working on it.

i dont know WHO was... but i think that was the gover of USA, for save the info in other places and they made an intranet

It was The Party. The Party also invented the helicopter, the telephone and your mother.

No disrespect intended. (Unless you mock The Party.)
-pcweirdo.

Some sad bloke who didn't like sport, but wanted an alternative to talking to the wife!

Well, it started of with the internet, being a military tool to share information. Later the universities were allowed to use it, and this lead to a new way of communicating and sharing information, which most likely lead to the beginning of the world wide web. As more people joined in, the size of the internet just exploded.

Here is a little history I found…
In the early 60s Paul Baran in Rand Corporation had to find a way to transfer the data across the network… And he found the “Packet Switching”. The first network that was using it was created in 1968 in the national physics laboratory.

I like to think of it differently.
I think the person who came up with WWW must be one of the oldest cavemen in the pre-history. Or at least, had the idea of it.
The internet is one of the oldest dreams of humans.
Like stopping time: we invented photography.
Flying: we invented plans
Immortality: medicine
Linking all humans together: WWW
I think we owe that caveman some credits.

Well, there is a difference between WWW and the internet. However, asking about which nation invented the world-wide web is a contradiction anyway. =)

I have ever heard that it's created by the American army to use in the military based... and then it's known and popular in the University...

zogo wrote:I don't think a person per se "made the WWW". I know an American dude got credited for it, even though the textbook I've had (printed in US, can you believe it) states that there was a bunch of people working on it.

Quite right. You can't credit a single person for inventing the WWW. For a start, the internet isn't the internet. There is so much technology involved in it that no person, group or even country can be credited with it. If you wanted to know who invented the World Wide Web, then you would first need to look at the first drafts and RFC for the HTTP protocol, and look at the evolution of HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
If you want to know who invented the internet then you have to look at the roots. Tracing back through the technology will give you something like this...

The Internet < TCP/IP Protocols < Communications Protocols < Personal Computers < Mainframe Computers < Digital Calculation Methods < Micro Electronics < The Transistor < Valve Technology < Basic Electronic Principles < Electricity...

It doesn't end there, and that happens to be the most direct route through it. The internet wasn't invented, it evolved. An invention is a finished product, but the internet is still changing, growing. Over the last few months we've seen the explosions of services like VoIP, IPV6, and over the last few years there has been greater change... And what can we expect in years to come? Biological computers? Quantam computers?

Or the short answer...

We all did, everyone that contributes, posts, hosts or browses the internet is one person helping it grow

Thats just my 2 cents though

geeker wrote:Biological computers? Quantam computers?

I'm gonna get a whole cluster of those. Yeah! I'm gonna calculate... I'm gonna optimize... I'm gonna factorize... I'm gonna RULE THE WORLD!

Sorry, went a bit off-topic. Shame on me! =)

CERN Claims it..

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Conten ... WW-en.html

But they sure as hell didnt invent Mosaic!

That's also what Wikipedia says.