Comment by herbst
1 day ago
A research project from Cern in Switzerland mind you. And a English guy who created all the protocols there
1 day ago
A research project from Cern in Switzerland mind you. And a English guy who created all the protocols there
HTTP is an Internet protocol; it is not the Internet. Moreover, it relies on other protocols such as TCP, which itself uses UDP.
TCP was invented in the US 20 years before HTTP.
That's like saying whoever invented the wheel also invented the car (For reference likely Iran & Germany)
VoIP and games and IM clients and non-web apps and "cloud storage" and all sorts of other things exist and evolve on the internet separate to the web.
It's not as though the rest of the non-web internet is a historical curio or abandoned obsolete technology.
3 replies →
Your point is like saying whoever invented the car also invented the wheel.
That doesn't defeat the point. It makes the point that research benefits all. That research can't happen in vacuum. It needs to be funded and culture and institutions build around it.
For a technology forum, the sheer volume of pettiness and anti-science and technology attitude is confounding.
People here sounds like the most mediocre managers I've ever worked with in my life.