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08-23-2009, 09:25 AM | #183 (permalink) | |
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Furthermore, while Americans invented the Internet (the physical network and standards), the WWW (the actual service which runs on the Internet network) wasn't invented until decades later by Tim Berners-Lee. So if you think the net would be anything like it is today without his work, you'd be sorely mistaken. This argument is idiotic anyway... any invention builds on existing knowledge and inventions - it's naive to try to credit the existence of computers or the net exactly to one person and their respective country, especially as the two are so complex and multi-faceted and have evolved through endless iterations. There have been many pioneers from many countries and here's a short list off the top of my head: * Claude Shannon - father of information theory and digital communication * Vannevar Bush - innovative thinking regarding his Memex in 1945 (read about it) * Joseph Licklider - visionary in heterogeneous networking * Douglas Engelbart - inventor of the computer mouse and NLS, leading to the desktop PC paradigm of the Xerox Alto * Dennis Ritchie - creator of the C language and a developer of UNIX (Kernighan also) * Linus Torvalds - creator of original Linux kernel * Richard Stallman - leader of the free software movement and GNU project * John Cocke - crucial to RISC architecture * Edsger Djikstra - too many things to list * Donald Knuth - seminal in the field of algorithmics * Peter Chen - devised entity-relationship modelling and impacted CASE * Alan Kay - a pioneer of OOP and window GUIs * John Von Neumann - his ideas can still be discerned in modern computer architecture This is hardly scratching the surface - I just noticed that I didn't even mention Nikola Tesla.
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08-24-2009, 02:48 PM | #184 (permalink) | |||
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Honesly I don't understand the logic where you discredit the fact that the first electronic computer was design and built at the Unversity of Pennsylvania, because someone built a mechanical computer. By all rights you should attribute the first computer to the Greeks not the English. Quote:
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08-24-2009, 04:29 PM | #185 (permalink) | |
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Such a shame that a relatively easy going thread has descended into backbiting.
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08-24-2009, 04:35 PM | #186 (permalink) |
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To be fair, a lot of threads these days end up in bitching. Everyone seems more bothered about arguing or slagging someone off rather than talking about something decent like, say, music.
Lee, get your ass back as a mod and clean up this town. :p
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08-24-2009, 05:20 PM | #187 (permalink) | |
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08-24-2009, 08:32 PM | #189 (permalink) | |
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I'm not the one trying to attribute the existence of the computer to any one country. Like I said earlier, it's naive to attempt to credit the existence of the modern computer to exactly one person or country as you're so intent on doing. It's more of an iterative development than a one-off invention. If you have a look at the list of pioneers I posted earlier, you'll understand this.
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08-24-2009, 11:57 PM | #190 (permalink) | ||||
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btw Nikola Tesla was an American citizen! Quote:
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