Post Ad0MsGVB8RL6cSGkBU by walshman23@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Ad06pG1kqQgV0o3AbQ by w3c@w3c.social
2023-12-20T12:30:24Z
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web and Vint Cerf invented the Internet. Some people often talk about one but mean the other. They once wore custom-made t-shirts to help identify which invention was theirs! #aboutW3C
(DIR) Post #Ad07AHN52ixlGH36FE by hnapel@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T12:34:16Z
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@w3c It's clear Al Gore invented both.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology
(DIR) Post #Ad07UC1UdYViSxRnYe by gbxyz@noc.social
2023-12-20T12:37:54Z
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@w3c what I've always loved about this photo is the wording of the T shirts: Vint is not the sort of person who uses contractions...
(DIR) Post #Ad09YDnoACBV3E5xIW by InfoMgmtExec@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T13:01:00Z
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’Success has many Fathers (#Inventors), whilst #Failure is an orphan’. These two sad #oldgits should just #STFU and go away.@w3c
(DIR) Post #Ad09k8S3sotFvmbWV6 by pseyfert@chaos.social
2023-12-20T13:03:10Z
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@w3c once overheard a tour guide at CERN "you see this plate? This is where the world wide web was invented. Do you know what this means? The world wide web - the INTERNET - was invented here"That said, I don't think pedantry helps us anything here. www is colloquially just internet in 90ies English, so include the Wikipedia articles on the t-shirts or don't bother.
(DIR) Post #Ad0ABU63W11MsfLtfE by arosano@hachyderm.io
2023-12-20T13:08:05Z
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@w3c You should sell two-packs with both to the rest of us ;)
(DIR) Post #Ad0CE6kCzlTLEQVo6S by light@hachyderm.io
2023-12-20T13:31:01Z
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@w3c I'm absolutely not surprised after the average people have been confused about the difference between the internet and the world wide web for quite some time. It's just fitting to confuse the two men too, they are at least being consistent.
(DIR) Post #Ad0CMFcBtk7Z3ne2DY by ekis@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T13:31:29Z
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@w3c I can not really explain it but I derive a lot of joy knowing these people are still alive, and Linus even if he is a bit of a dick, and old men who talk about the early cryptowarsIt all happened so fast, it makes my mind race and other times the speed is a bit nauseating
(DIR) Post #Ad0CTf8JQ9XqELCfVg by impooortant@mstdn.io
2023-12-20T13:31:46Z
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@w3c How did they expect their inventions to do good in the world?
(DIR) Post #Ad0CuPQjuZRJLcZnQ8 by synlogic@toot.io
2023-12-20T13:38:40Z
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@w3c nice touch with the "didn't" on Tim's shirt (instead of did not)
(DIR) Post #Ad0DmT1Slsv87uWwOe by dacig@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T13:48:27Z
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@w3c
(DIR) Post #Ad0Gn6FNEgKjdp1w2K by _luna@stranger.social
2023-12-20T14:22:01Z
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@w3c I once interviewed Vint Cerf for a project that never got finished (Curse you ADHD!!), he's a very chill person, who else would accept an interview from a (then) 14 year old?(I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing him, I'll link the interview video later if you all want)
(DIR) Post #Ad0HN3nTp132T589A0 by jef@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T14:28:13Z
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@w3c "You may ask one question."
(DIR) Post #Ad0IBXBQq2P85TOxPM by witch_of_winter@hachyderm.io
2023-12-20T14:37:47Z
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@w3c this is obviously untrue, everyone knows Jon Postel invented the Internet and web, for how could they exist without RFC, IANA, and other such critical work.
(DIR) Post #Ad0KCtmMVtvoMeSBzk by haliphax@hachyderm.io
2023-12-20T15:00:19Z
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@w3c Did they decide individually whether or not their shirt would use contractions? :)
(DIR) Post #Ad0L69sANaFAClWCgq by tehstu@hachyderm.io
2023-12-20T15:10:24Z
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@w3c That's a great photo. Does anyone know if either are on Mastodon, or the Fediverse in general?
(DIR) Post #Ad0MsGVB8RL6cSGkBU by walshman23@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T15:30:11Z
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@w3c Did Bob Metcalfe get a combo shirt with both messages?
(DIR) Post #Ad0OpW1h9uoro6ILzM by darac@furry.engineer
2023-12-20T15:52:09Z
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@w3c This feels like a fake. Vint Cerf in anything less than a three-piece suit? Shocking!
(DIR) Post #Ad0PAJIxeVX2QvHqMK by Albatross@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-20T15:55:56Z
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I'll just sit quietly over here with Dave Arneson and Nicola Tesla.
(DIR) Post #Ad0QJBvWYLDU6x7gVU by abdulateeffawas@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T16:08:43Z
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@w3c hello
(DIR) Post #Ad0SUFOmBWhnyMCm48 by jotaemei@social.coop
2023-12-20T16:33:12Z
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@w3c Vint Cerf has a very pointy outie!
(DIR) Post #Ad0U1WypwCO20lVTs0 by w3c@w3c.social
2023-12-20T16:50:27Z
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@gobbh if you hover on the image you'll see the alt text - Tim is on the left.General encouragement to everyone, alt text is both accessible and cool!
(DIR) Post #Ad0V3wIOszbf3kMzEO by teajaygrey@rap.social
2023-12-20T17:02:02Z
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@w3c Well, at least the shirts are accurate?"The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork."Or sometimes: Intergalactic Network of Computers.IMHO, "The Internet" did not begin with TCP in 1983.Moreover, I'd posit that Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick, who was largely responsible for the implementation of what is now often termed the BSD TCP/IP stack while he was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley working with the CSRG had a LOT more to do with TCP being deployed (also see the BBN BS recounted here):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ&t=909sComputer networks go back to at least SAGE [Semi-Automatic Ground Environment] from the 1950s, but the Internet largely evolved out of NLS (oNLine System) from Doug Engelbart's Augment group at SRI in the 1960s, particularly after J.C.R. Licklider gave them (D)ARPA funding; albeit at that point in time, it ran NCP (Network Control Program). TCP "flag day" wasn't until 1983, but "the Internet" was already in operation with RFCs, FTP and more, long before then.
(DIR) Post #Ad0VXZ2zt5nZdwI7lI by jasper@mastodon.nl
2023-12-20T17:07:25Z
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@w3c how many billions of dollars do they own?
(DIR) Post #Ad0Vg5UZ8vZyaLFb2O by scrottie@anarchism.space
2023-12-20T17:08:51Z
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@w3c Vint Cerf did too invent the Web. That's why we call it Web Cerfing.
(DIR) Post #Ad0Vos36UcRRUzarOi by aidanharding@fosstodon.org
2023-12-20T17:10:07Z
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@w3c some excellent shirt wearing that @shirtforce would appreciate
(DIR) Post #Ad0Xh2Z1iNHNhZv32m by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2023-12-20T17:31:31Z
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@w3c could we not minimize the contribution of at least a dozen people involved in inventing the original ARPAnet? Cerf did major work but so did Jon Postel and others. No single person invented the internet.
(DIR) Post #Ad0ZHxCOiyIdjPV4kK by MrFrenchFries@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T17:49:19Z
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@w3c So the avenging dragon of the library gods only has two heads? I’d expect at least 7-12.
(DIR) Post #Ad0bZVM5BYamUpWjFw by Kvnklly@fosstodon.org
2023-12-20T18:15:00Z
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@w3c reminds me we had this on our end of Year Trivia Question and most didn't get it right
(DIR) Post #Ad0cIK0CF5JoJhezSq by Legendsofanus@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T18:23:02Z
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@w3c OMG I did not know both of them, thanks for the heads up!
(DIR) Post #Ad0eTXpnM2cmJJH4F6 by eklektikos@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T18:47:33Z
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@w3c Reversing the factors, the product doesn't change: still immortal legends. 😎😁
(DIR) Post #Ad0loQpFJ8ukKivMRc by WrenJames@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T20:09:45Z
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@w3c just two old geezers who are past their prime, they put out the seed that grew from their genius that blossomed into something both could never imagine. what grew from it could never be predicted & from what they created, they could never imagine what it would make as well
(DIR) Post #Ad0mjXEq8anEjE7moS by failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
2023-12-20T20:20:04Z
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@w3c Bertrand Russell and iirc Lord Russell once co wrote a letter to the London Times that readWe wish to state that each of us is not the other
(DIR) Post #Ad0ntgmraemrC3RcLw by LalaKron@tooters.org
2023-12-20T20:33:05Z
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@w3c Is this gonna be on the test?
(DIR) Post #Ad0r9klcrNiQ27DWkK by zalintyre@chaos.social
2023-12-20T21:09:35Z
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@w3c Auge @leyrer 😅
(DIR) Post #Ad0ymE4b35HJbiNnhg by skaflock@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T22:35:01Z
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@w3c @gobbh Maybe its the light at the scene or my perception of color, but to me their t-shirts look black/dark gray, and not blue as it says in alt text, so I find it a bit misleading
(DIR) Post #Ad10VL2Q6GVGC5RKoS by kristfist@nerdculture.de
2023-12-20T22:54:23Z
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@w3c #proLife4Bytes https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45580/45580-h/45580-h.htm
(DIR) Post #Ad1XgUoZO7pyBjtDlo by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2023-12-21T05:05:51Z
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@w3c but together they invented the intarwebz.
(DIR) Post #Ad2Eh2A9hFKFe2UNmK by 8petros@petroskowo.pl
2023-12-21T13:04:09Z
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Berners-Lee, as W3C director, also forced DRM into HTML5 standard. Which effectively cancels him in my book.Over many objections, W3C approves DRM for HTML5
(DIR) Post #AdAcXzr9eHyNObrlK4 by bste@mstdn.social
2023-12-25T14:12:47Z
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@w3c masterpiece!
(DIR) Post #AdBX0JGKga0N7liirA by duncan_blues@norden.social
2023-12-26T00:45:37Z
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@w3c TBH: many people don't even know the difference between the internet and the web. 😒