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    Default Re: We'll take it from here...

    Quote Originally Posted by Marcellus
    The internet was created in America, and the worldwideweb, http etc. was created in Europe. Both groups helped the creation of the internet we now use. So my point is that no one group can claim that they alone created the modern internet. Therefore no one country can claim that they should control the internet. Since it is a world, resource, its control shold be in the hands of a world organisation.
    Look, just to be clear, what CERN created was a protocol Hyper Text Markup Protocol- it allows for the creation and display of web pages. It's not the Internet or anything close- it's something that runs over or thru the Internet and has nothing to do with it's structure or addressing, ect.

    That's like Blizzard saying "Hey, we created BattleNET- we own the Internet too." Well, not exactly, but you get the idea. I had the priviledge of using the Internet for a few years before the WWW took off and the prevalence of HTML certainly makes it easier for most people to use, but don't confuse it with the Internet itself.
    Last edited by Xiahou; 10-02-2005 at 00:50.
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