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To: combjelly who wrote (561861)	4/26/2010 11:00:57 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

A few dozen computers hooked together using a totally different protocol? Even if that was all it was yes, that would count as it existing. But it was more tha a few dozen computers by the time the money from the initiative Gore supported was being spent to expand the network. As for a different protocol, that's not definitive, we have changed protocols since Gore's involvement, and we will again. Scholars generally agree that a turning point for the World Wide Web began with the introduction[13] of the Mosaic web browser[14] in 1993 Funny how you left that out of your extensive quotes. Because its irrelevant. It was a major piece of software, but if it wasn't created by the the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, some one else would have created some different piece of software. Your argument is like saying if Wordstar wasn't invented we wouldn't have PC word processor software.

To: combjelly who wrote (561861)	4/28/2010 1:32:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

Nothing is inevitable with computers. Some very good ideas have died quiet deaths because they didn't catch on for whatever reason. Your blithe certainty that some other browser would have come along and launched the web is misplaced. While it might have happened, it is also likely that it wouldn't have. This is one of the more ridiculous claims you've made. It is laugh out loud funny. The browser came into existence when "visual" computing was in its infancy. Literally. There were dozens of networking protocols in use, any number of which might have evolved into something equivalent to, perhaps better than, TCP/IP. Assuming, arguendo, that the browser was a result of this one specific protocol, the notion that it was "one man's idea" and nobody else would have conceived it is just ridiculous. Do you think without TCP/IP there would be no equivalent to WANs today? Geez.