ArsTechnica looks back: "In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe's CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser. The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb, ran on Tim's NeXT cube and worked exclusively on the NeXTstep operating system. Archive copies of Tim's first web page and some early web sites show a web that is simultaneously very different from the modern one and yet still very familiar."
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The telephone is credit to Meucci also to Bell. Meucci thought of the idea, took what he knew turned it into a raw form of the telephone. Sold it to a telegraph company, they got Bell to improve upon it. So without Meucci AND Bell you wouldn't have the phone you know today.
And the funny thing is that Bell was from Scotland originally.
Member since:>The Colossus computer was classified but my bet many people from Allied forces had a hand in it.
I don't think so - it appears it was pretty much the brainchild of one man: Tommy Flowers. Flowers worked for the GPO (General Post Office, telecom company), and used spare parts from the phone exchange to build Colussus. Aparantly he found it very difficult to get official support for the project and had to fund the development himself. At the end of the war he was given a cash award in recognition of his efforts which barely compensated him for his expenses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
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"Every" modern day invention is not invented by one single person. The telephone is credit to Meucci also to Bell. Meucci thought of the idea, took what he knew turned it into a raw form of the telephone. Sold it to a telegraph company, they got Bell to improve upon it. So without Meucci AND Bell you wouldn't have the phone you know today.
The vehicle was invented in a raw form by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. A steamed power mass basicly. Then was touched upon by many other inventors. The internal combustion engine is credited to Benz and Daimler. Without all these people you wouldn't have the vehicles you know today.
Modern Fabrics? Give me a break. First sign of knitted fabrics was found in Egyptian tombs dated to 3rd and 6th Centuries AD. There were many inventions of Knitting machines which laid way to modern fabrics. No way one person can lay claim to Modern Fabrics with a history that long.
The bicycle is credited to Karl von Drais. BUT It was an idea by Leonardo da Vinci. Many people ran with this idea.
Powerdered Milk invented by Mongols. No one person is known to lay claim since it was first found in writing in 1275.
The television CAN NOT be credited to anyone person. Simply because it took ideas from 3 inventors for Logie Baird to show "simple faces" But infact if you want to know who first showed any type of picture it would be Farnsworth who showed some sort of picture.
The Colossus computer was classified but my bet many people from Allied forces had a hand in it.
All in all almost every invention turns out to be someone else's invention to.