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Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony by tymekpavel on Saturday July 28, 2012 @04:04AM (#4305019)
You wrote that the British media was claiming Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet. During the opening ceremony, they clearly referred to him as the inventor of the World Wide Web. I'm not quite sure what jonhendry misread.
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Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony by derleth on Saturday July 28, 2012 @04:17AM (#4305035)
> You wrote that the British media was claiming Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet.

No, I asked if they were claiming that. As in, I asked a question. Since when is that equivalent to making a claim?

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Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony by jonhendry on Saturday July 28, 2012 @04:32AM (#4305064)
In that case, no, it's the US media doing that.
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Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony by tymekpavel on Saturday July 28, 2012 @04:39AM (#4305083)
Your question implied the British media was claiming Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet, otherwise you wouldn't have asked it. I never said you made the claim.

The bottom line is, TBL's appearance in the opening ceremony clearly labelled him as the inventor of the WWW.

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Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony by derleth on Saturday July 28, 2012 @04:53AM (#4305102)
> Your question implied

Not that I can see, no.

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