Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman
The World Wide Web (WWW) is so ubiquitous that it seems strange to think that it has only been around for a few years. Indeed, use of the WWW became widespread in the mid 1990's, but its beginnings can actually be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman who had recently graduated from Oxford, landed a temporary contract job as a software consultant at CERN ( the famous European Particle physics Laboratory in Geneva). He wrote a program, called Enquire, which he called a "memory substitute," for his personal use to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab (Wright, 64). This was a very helpful tool since CERN was (and still is) a large international organization involving a multitude of researchers located around the world.
2007-01-18 01:50:26
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answered by Basement Bob 6
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1945
Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche
1960s
Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. He invents the mouse for this purpose. See the Bootstrap Institute library.
Ted Nelson coins the word Hypertext in A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate. 20th National Conference, New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. See also: Literary Machines, a hypertext bibliography.
Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS in 1967.
1980
While consulting for CERN June-December of 1980, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes. Each node had a title, a type, and a list of bidirectional typed links. "ENQUIRE" ran on Norsk Data machines under SINTRAN-III. See: Enquire user manual as scanned images or as HTML page(alt).
2007-01-18 01:22:20
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answered by credo quia est absurdum 7
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If you're referring to Tim Berners-Lee, who reputedly started off the internet, he was British. Maybe it's my American cousins who used the propaganda because he worked at CERN (European Particle physics Laboratory in Geneva), and they felt they were missing out on something. lol.
2007-01-18 02:00:58
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answered by micksmixxx 7
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False
2007-01-18 01:19:58
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answered by Anonymous
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false
2007-01-18 01:19:24
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answered by Jane 3
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I thought he was British, or was that just propoganda?
2007-01-18 01:38:18
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answered by checkmate 6
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No, it was Al Gore.
Yes, I am joking.
2007-01-18 06:13:32
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answered by Adoptive Father 6
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false, see this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
2007-01-18 01:21:43
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answered by The_SMeghead 5
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