> HEY, I stated FACTS! I could state a lot more. BUT, I DID > give a LOT of credit to one person in particular, and he is > FINNISH! I'd say it was pretty straight to the point. > FUNNY, The CANADIANS are taking credit for the phone ALSO! > As I recall though, it was AMERICANS that made it > practical.(The one bell invented was basically a novelty. > Before the switches, etc... Giving a large group good phone > service was impossible.) As I recall, it was AMERICANS that > invented the web(It was the NCSA! And the FIRST browser is > copyright by the University of Illinois. Funny, I always > thought that was in the U.S.) and TV was at least made > practical in the U.S. In FACT, the U.S. had a competition > for the first group to retrofit color onto the existing > signal. They succeeded there too. > > But HEY, I am surprised you didn't claim to have the first > computer. Supposedly, Britain DID do that, but they were top > secret and had to be destroyed after the war. Or that you > kept breaking the NAZI codes for the war with same.
The ignorance of this email is astounding. I'm glad I know many other Americans and know that not all of them are as ignorant as you. The web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee who was a British scientist at CERN in Switzerland. For you to state otherwise is just down right wrong. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html For the record, the first browser was NOT NCSA Mosaic but in fact was called WorldWideWeb. Screenshot can be found here: http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/CACM/screensnap2_24c.gif As for the computer, what do you define as a computer? Charles Babbage could be credited with inventing the first computer. The computer you refer to was made at Bletchley Heath in England and helped crack the codes produced by the German Enigma machine. Without a shadow of a doubt it shortened the length f the war by three years. It predates the first American computer by a few years and was not destroyed. From memory one exists at the Science Museum in London. I shall not bother responding to the other nonsense you have typed. It is still frightning that there are people like you who assume America is the centre of the world and that no other nation did anything. Saying that, you voted (ahem) for a President with precisely the same mentality. G (shocked from London) -- º • º • º • º • º • º • º • º Gerard McGovern w: http://www.inkiboo.com m: +44 7782 244 388 aim: inkiboouk | y!: inkiboo | msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "imagination is more important than knowledge"
