23-07-2009, 15:48
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Trollsplatter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North of Watford
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Re: Tim Berners-Lee not father of the web?
I don't often fire off emails to editors, but in this case I felt I had to ...
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Claire,
I'm disappointed that a publication that styles itself 'web user' should make such a dreadful, howling schoolboy error such as the one in this article about Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/286641.html .
Tim Berners-Lee invented the worldwide web, a technology that allows users to access information across a computer network using hypertext. The internet, on the other hand, is a global network of networks, which has many uses. Sharing web pages is just one of those uses. Confusing the network with one of the things you can do with that network is fair enough for the general home PC user, but for a publication such as yours it's unforgivable.
Your quote from Trevor Harris is also a gross over-simplification of how research into packet switching led to networks, then a network of networks (the 'internet') and then the worldwide web. Whether that's down to Harris himself or poor selective quoting by your reporter, I have no idea.
To be honest, the article is fundamentally wrong on so many levels, if I were you I'd just pull it right now. I doubt I'm the only one emailing you about it.
Yours in mild dismay,
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