What is it with supposedly ‘technical’ reporters? They apparently haven’t clue ONE about the material they’re writing about.
Take for example an article appearing in the Herald Tribune – Europe. The subject is a good one, Tim Berners-Lee discussing research into the future of the ‘net. A worthy topic, but the short article contains this little gem:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who is credited with creating the Internet, said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that the way the Web is used should be examined by a broad spectrum of experts.
NO. WRONG. TBL had nothing to do with the ‘Invention of the Internet’. TBL is credited with first linking hypertext documents with a mechanism for linking these documents to remote servers. He wrote the first webserver, and the first web browser, and coined the term ‘World Wide Web’. This is an application that runs OVER the internet.
Don’t you know, he also invented porn? Because that’s what HTML is primarily used for, right?
They’ve already fixed it – “Sir Tim Berners-Lee, … credited with creating the World Wide Web, … broad spectrum of experts.”