Vote for the best design you use everyday...

[Doombrain]

oh ya, it's BRITISH DESIGN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/designquest/vote/

World Wide Web, 1989
Designer: Tim Berners-Lee


In less than two decades, the World Wide Web has transformed the lives of millions of people by giving us free and instant access to online information. By enabling us to communicate our own ideas to other people in the same instantly accessible way, it has also changed the way we think and behave, and will continue to do so for decades.

The World Wide Web was designed by a Briton, Tim Berners-Lee (1955-). After building his first computer from a soldering iron and television set as a student at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, Berners-Lee became a software engineer. In 1980, he wrote a computer program, Enquire, to store information and to make random associations between different pieces of information.

Enquire was only ever intended for personal use, but formed the basis for Berners-Lee's work on a more ambitious project, the World Wide Web. Completed in 1989, it was intended to combine the processing power of the computer with the intuitive qualities of the human brain. Determined to make his invention available to everyone, Berners-Lee designed it as a democratic medium in which everything was equally accessible, regardless of size or quality. His dream was to enable us to use computers "to make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in and how we can better work together".


Ouch

[Grudge]

Case in point

http://www.planetgargoyle.com/

[Doombrain]

damn

[BlueGene]

I thought it was Al Gore who invented the Internet.

Wait a sec the British guy invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. K.

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/definitio ... rence.html

All of the web sites in the world, taken together, make up the World Wide Web. The Internet is the worldwide network of interconnected computers, including both web servers and computers like the one on your desk that run web browser software. The Internet also carries other kinds of network traffic unrelated to the web.

Let's put it even more simply:

The Internet is the actual network. The World Wide Web is something you can do with it. You can do other things with it, too. Playing Quake or sending email both use the Internet but are not the World Wide Web.

[Nightshade]

Wasn't it Darpanet before it became anything else? Owned?

[phantasmagoria]

mmm, spitfire.

[R00k]

oh ya, it's BRITISH DESIGN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/designquest/vote/

World Wide Web, 1989
Designer: Tim Berners-Lee


In less than two decades, the World Wide Web has transformed the lives of millions of people by giving us free and instant access to online information. By enabling us to communicate our own ideas to other people in the same instantly accessible way, it has also changed the way we think and behave, and will continue to do so for decades.

The World Wide Web was designed by a Briton, Tim Berners-Lee (1955-). After building his first computer from a soldering iron and television set as a student at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, Berners-Lee became a software engineer. In 1980, he wrote a computer program, Enquire, to store information and to make random associations between different pieces of information.

Enquire was only ever intended for personal use, but formed the basis for Berners-Lee's work on a more ambitious project, the World Wide Web. Completed in 1989, it was intended to combine the processing power of the computer with the intuitive qualities of the human brain. Determined to make his invention available to everyone, Berners-Lee designed it as a democratic medium in which everything was equally accessible, regardless of size or quality. His dream was to enable us to use computers "to make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in and how we can better work together".


Ouch

It was just a dorm-wide web until Americans invented the internet.

Owned.

[Doombrain]

oh ya, it's BRITISH DESIGN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/designquest/vote/

World Wide Web, 1989
Designer: Tim Berners-Lee


In less than two decades, the World Wide Web has transformed the lives of millions of people by giving us free and instant access to online information. By enabling us to communicate our own ideas to other people in the same instantly accessible way, it has also changed the way we think and behave, and will continue to do so for decades.

The World Wide Web was designed by a Briton, Tim Berners-Lee (1955-). After building his first computer from a soldering iron and television set as a student at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, Berners-Lee became a software engineer. In 1980, he wrote a computer program, Enquire, to store information and to make random associations between different pieces of information.

Enquire was only ever intended for personal use, but formed the basis for Berners-Lee's work on a more ambitious project, the World Wide Web. Completed in 1989, it was intended to combine the processing power of the computer with the intuitive qualities of the human brain. Determined to make his invention available to everyone, Berners-Lee designed it as a democratic medium in which everything was equally accessible, regardless of size or quality. His dream was to enable us to use computers "to make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in and how we can better work together".


Ouch

It was just a dorm-wide web until Americans invented the internet.

Owned.

fuck off rag hed

[R00k]

I didn't know a claim to the interweb was so close to your heart.

[ppp]

Electrickery

[seremtan]

The World Wide Web was designed by a Briton, Tim Berners-Lee

bollocks

In 1980, while an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim-Berners_Lee

he didn't invent hypertext however:

Therefore, all major histories of hypertext start with 1945, when Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called "As We May Think," about a futuristic device he called a Memex. He described the device as mechanical desk linked to an extensive archive of microfilms and able to display books, texts or any document from the library, and further able to automatically follow references from any given page to the specific page referenced.

Most experts do not consider the Memex to be a true hypertext system. However, the story starts with the Memex because "As We May Think" directly influenced and inspired the two American men generally credited with the invention of hypertext, Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

nor did he invent the internet. he just thought of putting the two together. saying this means he 'designed the world wide web' is like saying edison designed las vegas because it's full of light bulbs

he certainly deserves recognition, but not exaggeration

[BlueGene]

Actually that analogy is very inaccurate, it’s more like saying Edison didn't design the light bulb because he didn't invent glass.

Even the wikipedia article credits him as creating the World Wide Web.

Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL) (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.

He used similar ideas to those underlying the Enquire system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first web browser and editor (called WorldWideWeb and developed on NeXTSTEP) and the first Web server called httpd (short for HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon).

The first Web site built was at http://info.cern.ch/ [2] and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own.

[Grandpa Stu]

i voted for the underground map. that thing is cool.

[brisk]

i voted for the underground map. that thing is cool.

Yep, it gets my vote too.

[Doombrain]

The World Wide Web was designed by a Briton, Tim Berners-Lee

bollocks

In 1980, while an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim-Berners_Lee

he didn't invent hypertext however:

Therefore, all major histories of hypertext start with 1945, when Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called "As We May Think," about a futuristic device he called a Memex. He described the device as mechanical desk linked to an extensive archive of microfilms and able to display books, texts or any document from the library, and further able to automatically follow references from any given page to the specific page referenced.

Most experts do not consider the Memex to be a true hypertext system. However, the story starts with the Memex because "As We May Think" directly influenced and inspired the two American men generally credited with the invention of hypertext, Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

nor did he invent the internet. he just thought of putting the two together. saying this means he 'designed the world wide web' is like saying edison designed las vegas because it's full of light bulbs

he certainly deserves recognition, but not exaggeration

what you telling me for? tell the bbc.

[MKJ]

oo, e type jag

[nuttin butta peanut]

The internet was invented by a man

[seremtan]

The World Wide Web was designed by a Briton, Tim Berners-Lee

bollocks

In 1980, while an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim-Berners_Lee

he didn't invent hypertext however:

Therefore, all major histories of hypertext start with 1945, when Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called "As We May Think," about a futuristic device he called a Memex. He described the device as mechanical desk linked to an extensive archive of microfilms and able to display books, texts or any document from the library, and further able to automatically follow references from any given page to the specific page referenced.

Most experts do not consider the Memex to be a true hypertext system. However, the story starts with the Memex because "As We May Think" directly influenced and inspired the two American men generally credited with the invention of hypertext, Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

nor did he invent the internet. he just thought of putting the two together. saying this means he 'designed the world wide web' is like saying edison designed las vegas because it's full of light bulbs

he certainly deserves recognition, but not exaggeration

what you telling me for? tell the bbc.

i think they want 'votes for' not 'why he bbc's feature writers are crap'

my vote for 'best british design' goes to....... AMERICA!!111

[Grudge]

Actually that analogy is very inaccurate, it’s more like saying Edison didn't design the light bulb because he didn't invent glass.

exactly

[Nightshade]

The internet was invented by a man

Thanks for the stunning revelation, Sparky.

[Nightshade]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/d ... cats.shtml

I hate those goddamn things.

[MKJ]

yea, nothing as annoying as beacons in the dark :@

[Nightshade]

Try passing someone on a motorcycle and running over a bunch of them as you cross the line. Kicks your wheels all over hell and half of Georgia. I don't mind them on the sides of the road, but they're only in the center of the roads over here.

[MKJ]

gha. unless you even got your wheel stuck in a tramline you have no reason to complain

[nuttin butta peanut]

The internet was invented by a man

Thanks for the stunning revelation, Sparky.

The guy was a man was he not? Ha, then shut up before I make you.