[ih] My 2013 paper on the History of the Internet

[Alex McKenzie]

 After I submitted my article the editors decided to put all references to individuals in a standard format.  They made Tim an American - I didn't get a chance to review these editorial changes.  

I don't remember where the December 1990 reference came from, but I was confident of it at the time I wrote the article.
Cheers,Alex

    On Friday, November 26, 2021, 09:07:15 PM EST, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 "In December 1990 Tim Berners-Lee (1955– ), an
American computer scientist working at the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), demonstrated
a system..."

I've never met anyone more British than Tim, I don't think.

By the way, where does the December 1990 date come from?
I'm looking at pages 29-31 of Tim's book, and it confirms
what I remember - he and Robert Cailliau didn't start showing
the Web to other people until the beginning of 1991. I was
a beta user of Nicola Pellow's CLI browser (and its killer
app, access to the CERN phone book) from early 1991, although
I can't put an exact date on it.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 27-Nov-21 06:28, Alex McKenzie via Internet-history wrote:
> In 2014 a paper I was hired to write about the history of the Internet was published in the 3-volume "Discoveries in Modern Science." I was required to cover several specific items which the publishers considered critical, whether I thought so or not. Of course, with a restricted word limit the big question for an author is what to include and what to leave out.  I'm sure other authors would have made different choices from mine.
> I was recently granted permission to post a copy of this article on my website.  If anyone is interested it can be found athttp://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/history-of-the-internet.html
> 
> Cheers,Alex
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