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Martin

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    No no, Al Gore invented the internet. Tim only invented the WWW, so without Tim we would have email, ftp, msn, irc, torrent & p2p, but not juventuz. :D
     
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    Martin said:
    No no, Al Gore invented the internet. Tim only invented the WWW, so without Tim we would have email, ftp, msn, irc, torrent & p2p, but not juventuz. :D
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    Well, we could've had #Juventuz at irc, and that'll be close to it.. :D
     
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    Congratulations, Tim, you created the world's biggest rescource of child porn.
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    Yes, and before the wheel was invented there was no such thing as car accidents.
     
    Seven

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    Martin said:
    Yes, and before the wheel was invented there was no such thing as car accidents.
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    Well, that's exactly my point. We always think that technological advance is good, but is it really? Sure we don't die at the age of 30 anymore, instead we get old and live the last 15 years of our lives in agony. I'm not saying we should go back to the Stone Age, because that's simply no option, but accepting that a tool such as the internet is misused on such a large scale only implies that creating it was premature. Which can have awful consequences.
     

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    Seven said:
    Well, that's exactly my point. We always think that technological advance is good, but is it really? Sure we don't die at the age of 30 anymore, instead we get old and live the last 15 years of our lives in agony. I'm not saying we should go back to the Stone Age, because that's simply no option, but accepting that a tool such as the internet is misused on such a large scale only implies that creating it was premature. Which can have awful consequences.
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    And do you hint that if some children look to TV very much hurting their eyes and as a result, wearing glasses, then TV invention was bad initially??
     
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    Seven said:
    Well, that's exactly my point. We always think that technological advance is good, but is it really? Sure we don't die at the age of 30 anymore, instead we get old and live the last 15 years of our lives in agony. I'm not saying we should go back to the Stone Age, because that's simply no option, but accepting that a tool such as the internet is misused on such a large scale only implies that creating it was premature. Which can have awful consequences.
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    That's interesting. A lot has been said lately about the net's stupendous evolution simply because it was free and not controlled by anyone. Guys like Tim and others deeply involved in making the net "happen" certainly believe this is the reason for its amazing adoption.

    So you think the internet should be introduced with "safeguards"?
     
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    Martin said:
    That's interesting. A lot has been said lately about the net's stupendous evolution simply because it was free and not controlled by anyone. Guys like Tim and others deeply involved in making the net "happen" certainly believe this is the reason for its amazing adoption.

    So you think the internet should be introduced with "safeguards"?
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    I guess that, to an extent, they already control the internet, at least in Belgium. If you download child porn in here, chances are you'll get the police after you. We use laws because restrictions are necessary to keep society acceptable to most people. It only seems logical to me that we use restrictions like that on the internet as well.
     
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    Yep. The first Web site was developed on NeXT. The Steve Jobs stint no one talks about. The first Web site in the U.S. was hosted on an IBM 370 machine running MVS. :yuck:

    A friend of mine (and former coworker) worked in the same documentation group as TBL at CERN. While TBL assembled the existing pieces that became the WWW, my friend was in the other team in that department, developing groupware then known as CERNdoc. Nobody talks about CERNdoc either. ;)
     
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    swag said:
    Yep. The first Web site was developed on NeXT. The Steve Jobs stint no one talks about. The first Web site in the U.S. was hosted on an IBM 370 machine running MVS. :yuck:

    A friend of mine (and former coworker) worked in the same documentation group as TBL at CERN. While TBL assembled the existing pieces that became the WWW, my friend was in the other team in that department, developing groupware then known as CERNdoc. Nobody talks about CERNdoc either. ;)
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    go away. nobody likes a good for nothing blabering old man :toast:
     
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    Been a while Greg, miss you lot. Will be back here fully soon enough. I notice you've finally overtaken me (by far) in the post counts...
     
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