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oioi
12:32 Wed Nov 11
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He was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in which he appeared working with a vintage NeXT Computer at the London Olympic Stadium. He tweeted "This is for everyone” which appeared in LCD lights attached to the chairs of the audience. He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".
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norwaytips
12:32 Wed Nov 11
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Somebody mention sliced bread, but that was an American; Rohwedder, or something like that. He invented a bread slicing machine.
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oioi
12:30 Wed Nov 11
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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Sarge
12:06 Wed Nov 11
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Wilf Lunn from Vision On
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The Mercernary
11:16 Tue Nov 10
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My 6 times great uncle, Samuel Crompton - inventor of the Spinning Mule.
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geoffpikey
9:28 Tue Nov 10
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Alexander Graham Bell
E.T. wouldn't have made sense without him.
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Darlo Debs
9:13 Tue Nov 10
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Didn't Hedi.Lamarr play a huge oart in inventing the WWW?
At least I.think.it was her?.The one Hitchcock had the hots for.
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geoffpikey
9:10 Tue Nov 10
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Tim Berners-Lee didn't "invent" the internet/world wide web. By his own admission. He said:
"Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together."
So we're back to semantics again. Still, well played for completing a jigsaw.
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Darlo Debs
9:03 Tue Nov 10
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A mere techicality
Swtoc
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Far Cough
8:51 Tue Nov 10
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Yes but at least he was British
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Darlo Debs
8:48 Tue Nov 10
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FC that was even worse.😀
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Capitol Man
8:44 Tue Nov 10
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Tobermory.
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Far Cough
12:42 Tue Nov 10
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Debs, you could have said I'm struggling but I can only think of one, James Watt and then I ran out of steam
Here to help
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Vexed
12:36 Tue Nov 10
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You're not allowed to say 'dark' anymore. Twiter and the baby jesus will get OFFENDED. There'll be millennials jizzing all over the cenotaph in no time.
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Darlo Debs
12:34 Tue Nov 10
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Wise
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Far Cough
12:33 Tue Nov 10
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I ignored the "dark joke"
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Darlo Debs
12:22 Tue Nov 10
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The joke was bloody stupid and that is the bit you focus on?
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Far Cough
12:19 Tue Nov 10
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Yeah but Edison was American
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Faux Bare
12:08 Tue Nov 10
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James Dyson
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Darlo Debs
12:04 Tue Nov 10
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Struggling to think of one apart from Thomas Edison - Otherwise I'm in the dark.
Sorry
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BillyJenningsBoots
10:38 Tue Nov 10
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Professor Pat Pending....
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