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> Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale?
More the common mythology about Turing that gets repeated by people that never checked the details.
Bletchley Park was real and people like Bill Tutte cracked some seriously difficult encryption methods more difficult than Enigma.
Tim Berners Lee alone, without being part of a vast group that adopted and used WWW, wasn't sufficient for WWW to take hold.
There were many proto markup attempts, he authored one but it needed soil to grow, s/soil/CERN/.
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> Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale?
More the common mythology about Turing that gets repeated by people that never checked the details.
Bletchley Park was real and people like Bill Tutte cracked some seriously difficult encryption methods more difficult than Enigma.
Tim Berners Lee alone, without being part of a vast group that adopted and used WWW, wasn't sufficient for WWW to take hold.
There were many proto markup attempts, he authored one but it needed soil to grow, s/soil/CERN/.