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The First Amendment does not say you can say whatever you want. It says the government cannot regulate what you say.

The government regulates and enforces private contracts. Therefore, contracts are Federal private law. The First Amendment is unalienable under Federal law.

But all of this is offtopic because the article does not mention the United States.

If people didn't want to live under the restrictions of the declaration (whatever they may be), then said people simply should not have signed.

I understand, but offtopic hypothetical: If you don't agree with the terms of the only contract that the monopoly provider of an essential service provides, what is your recourse?

Neil is by far my favorite graphic novel writer (next to Alan, of course). Anyone who doesn't already know should check out his Sandman books. He also wrote the best issue of Spawn, #9 I think.

Want to fight back? There is a super easy way to doing it.

First, report all spam you get. It's easier then you think too -- Spamcop is a great free service which parses the headers of a spam and reports it for you automagically. It's pretty keen.

Second, check out Sneakemail to prevent spam from reaching you -- period. (See the Sneakemail descripion for a full explanation of how it works. Suffice to say, it is tres cool.)

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Tim posted the story, but the review was written by clampe, who's pretty bright himself.

Actually, Macross Plus was an OVA series, then became a video.

Wildly OT but who cares. Actually, OVA (Original Video Animation) means that it was released first on video.

I had to look this one up. According to Everything, RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary, an XML format for distributing news headlines on the Web, also known as syndication.

For example: Some of the things I discussed involved the use of color and texture, which would probably have been degraded beyond recognition if I were forced to use pictures taken by pointing a camera at my TV.

If I can use parts of a copyrighted work in my own scholarly works, I must be able to use it at full quality. Anything less would not be adequate.
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http://tuxedo.org/~esr/

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=15073

I'm a big fan of Common Lisp as well as Paul Graham (having read his book ANSI Common Lisp, I can see that he possesses both in-depth technical knowledge and a sense of humor). This article seems to match what I've read of him in quality, and I look forward to reading it in more depth when I get home.

I'm not a Lisp guru by any means, but the one thing that I always get a kick out of is how easy it is to become a low-level guru. After a few weeks of playing, I was doing things I wouldn't have dreamed of doing in C or Java. And it changes one's perspective. It all translates to machine code at the lowest level, of course, but after learning Lisp I can say without a doubt that I'm a better C programmer.

Lisp is an interesting language, because in some ways it's ridiculously high level (closures, generic functions, garbage collection, et cetera), but you're also able to get down and dirty with the cons cells with no trouble. I think this quote expresses it best:

What I like about Lisp is that you can feel the bits between your toes.

-- Drew McDermott

Graham's "Blub" example holds true for everyone I've met who has a disdain for Lisp. The advanced features it provides really do go over their heads, which is sad, because these are often intelligent people. Also, they don't look beyond the syntax differences, and often have a lot of misinformation (Lisp is slow, you can't do iteration in Lisp, Lisp is for lists and AI) fed to them by CS professors or whoever. I also often see a lot of posts from newbies who want to write "C-Lisp" and give up when that doesn't work. Lisp is a different paradigm, and needs to be treated as such.

If you're interested in Lisp, I would recommend reading The Evolution of Lisp (don't be angry at the poor fonts in the PDF; they didn't use scalable TeX fonts, the weenies :), Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp, and Winston and Horn's LISP, 3rd Edition (but ignore them when they disparage car and cdr), in that order.

Also, don't be confused by the various Lisps out there. First, ignore Emacs Lisp. Among its quirkyisms, it's dynamically scoped, which means that if you declare a variable, every function you call will also have access to that variable. Secondly, Scheme and Common Lisp are vastly different. Scheme is much leaner, and has 1 namespace, which means you can't name a variable and a function the same thing (I dislike this, but it's a hotly contested issue). Common Lisp has a huge set of standard APIs and much more versatility prebuilt into its core, while Scheme tries to stay small so as to provide an easily implementable standard. I'm a Common Lisp man, myself, but try things out for yourself.

One final thing is that if you hang out with them, you'll realize that most of the long-time posters are extremely knowledgable and have a great sense of heritage. I've learned a great deal by simply lurking through their flamewars, since I find out a lot about what issues may crop up for an individual programmer.

If you want a bit more advocacy, see my recent posts on the subject.

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371574977536 possible tunes

Information theory states that anything for which there are fewer than 2^40 (approx. 10^12) possibilities can be encoded in 40 bits. How's that for compression? They don't even make encryption keys that short anymore. (Or is this the MPAA's argument, that the 40-bit title key on a CSS encrypted DVD is copyrighted?) In the world of words, where a letter has about 2 or 3 bits of entropy to keep things pronounceable, things that short are trademarked, not copyrighted. (This opens up another can of worms.)

Here's another ballpark estimate: Take 6 choices for the next note (no accidentals, no adjacent repetitions, disregard rhythm) and you get a smaller number of melodies. Allow that all melodies can be transposed to start on C, and you get 6^(n - 1) melodies of n notes. This formula that gives only 6^7 = 279,936 possible eight-note melodies, representable in 19 bits. There are an order of magnitude more unexpired U.S. patents than eight-note diatonic melodies.

All you really need to do is get some hard drive space, write a script to output all the permutations, copyright it, and then sue anyone who "dares" to use your "original" work.

I've analyzed this situation before and given a formula for the number of possible melodies with x notes. I've also written programs that use music theory to generate random but pleasing contrapuntal music on the fly.

Secondly, how much of a song does a phone have to play before it becomes copyright infringement? A bar? A chorus?

The Yes! We Have No Bananas! case dealt with this very issue (a song's four-note hook was copied), but I forget which way it went.

People are using JavaScript to prevent viewers from using the right mouse button to save a picture

Blocking contextual menus is more trouble than it's worth (read more). (Circumvent it in IE by holding down the right mouse button and pressing Enter, or choosing File : Save As... : Web page complete. Circumvent it anywhere by wgetting the page and its images.) And it pisses some people off enough to make them write right-click shit lists.

any given tab you pull off the internet will not be like source code because it will never be 100% accurate (I have seen exceptions, but those are few and far between). Therefore, it's not the same as the original work.

Your argument, "Just because it's a derivative work means it's no longer restricted," doesn't hold legal water. 17 USC 106 and foreign counterparts give the copyright owner exclusive rights to prepare and authorize "derivative works based upon the copyrighted work." Clones of software are not based upon the original source code, but tablature and other sheet music are based upon the original sequence of notes that makes up the music, and sequences of notes are expressions not ideas.

The tabs on the site are transcribed by people that listened to the music.

But they're derivative works of the original musical composition.

This can be compared to running a program and then making your own that is similar without looking at the source code.

Cloning software is legal, but cloning music is not. They differ in the amount of paraphrase (copying of ideas with new expression) between the original and the copy. Copying the behavior of a program is copying ideas and not restricted under copyright law. Raw music itself, on the other hand, contains hardly any content that could be considered "idea" (you can be sued for four notes), and the lyrics that normally accompany tablature are generally copied verbatim.

The tabs on the site are transcribed by people that listened to the music.

But they're derivative works of the original musical composition.

This can be compared to running a program and then making your own that is similar without looking at the source code.

Cloning software is legal, but cloning music is not. They differ in the amount of paraphrase (copying of ideas with new expression) between the original and the copy. Copying the behavior of a program is copying ideas and not restricted under copyright law. Raw music itself, on the other hand, contains hardly any content that could be considered "idea" (you can be sued for four notes), and the lyrics that normally accompany tablature are generally copied verbatim.

The MA people

.ma.us is Massachusetts. Maryland is .md.us.

Who has jurisdiction over interstate commerce in the US? What laws, if any, would apply?

Federal law applies to interstate commerce. According to United States Constitution, article 1, section 8: "The Congress shall have power ... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states."

The copyright industry? Puh-lease tell me this is just a poor choice of words rather than somebody's cockeyed view of the world.

I've used this term before. It refers to the entertainment industry in the sense that it controls popular culture with the iron fist of copyright. Why again does Disney still have a monopoly on Mickey Mouse?

largely spearheaded by (c), Inc.

"Copyright Inc." is not too far off base. There are companies whose sole purpose is to milk copyright for all it's worth, such as ASCAP, BMI, RIAA, and MPAA.

First :-) gets patented

No, :-(® is a trademark, not a patent. Right office, wrong monopoly. Trademark #75502288 on ":-(" applies only to "Printed matter namely, greeting cards, posters and art prints."

This gives you several rights, the most important one is that anyone can distribute as long as they give the original author credit (which is very important with an artform like music, it would bite to hear your song later and have someone else claiming they wrote/performed it).

You just described MIT- and BSD-style noncopyleft licenses. (I am a musician and have released musical works and sound recordings, mostly folk song covers, under a slightly customized version of the XFree86 license.) The "attribution" requirement in (O) is similar to the language "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software" from XFree86.

The difference is that this is a copyleft. From (O): "Any new work that in whole or in part contains or is derived from a work (or part thereof) made available under this license, must itself be licensed as a whole under the terms of this license."

Over time I've found this to be ridiculously true, and am deeply saddened by the lack of, well, not mainstream acceptance of Lisp, because mainstream acceptance always destroys anything good, but a willingness to let me, as a professional, select a language which:

• allows me to be incredibly productive
• is one of the few languages that really allow me to feel one with my code
• is not slow, nor necessarily (or usually) interpreted
• is not limited to AI
• does, in fact, allow iteration
• has many advanced data constructs beyond lists
• has the best general-purpose OO system I've ever seen
• is fun to hack in Emacs :-)

Sigh. Anyone have any Lisp jobs for an enthusiast and advocate with about a year's informal experience and a love of the language?

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browsing in 2048x1536. Slashdot, like Everything and most other web sites, is optimized for an 800x600 browser window.

Everything2 seems slashdotted, but I think that link should have been to here.

Macrovision

(thing) byZorin
Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:28 utc

An extremely annoying copy protection used on commercial VHS videos and the output of DVD players. Although it is easily worked around with a Macrovision Buster, it's a necessary evil that content producers need to use to protect their assets.

(thing) bygetzburg
Sun Apr 2 2000 at 00:54 utc

I lack technical details on this one, but basically what it does is mess with the gain control on whatever device you attach it to, particularly VCRs, so that the picture keeps alternating between light and dark. Tremendously annoying.

(No, I wasn't going to merge all the node linkage! Some people [] too much! Perhaps Slashdot needs some E2 intergration... that would rock...)

Anyway, hope this helps!

Macrovision

(thing) byZorin
Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:28 utc

An extremely annoying copy protection used on commercial VHS videos and the output of DVD players. Although it is easily worked around with a Macrovision Buster, it's a necessary evil that content producers need to use to protect their assets.

(thing) bygetzburg
Sun Apr 2 2000 at 00:54 utc

I lack technical details on this one, but basically what it does is mess with the gain control on whatever device you attach it to, particularly VCRs, so that the picture keeps alternating between light and dark. Tremendously annoying.

(No, I wasn't going to merge all the node linkage! Some people [] too much! Perhaps Slashdot needs some E2 intergration... that would rock...)

Anyway, hope this helps!

Many web sites do not allow the user to right-click, in an attempt to "protect" their "content" by using EcmaScript to disable the contextual menu that accesses "Save Image As..." and "View Source." This is a Bad Thing, as if even the Back button is moved to the right mouse button, the webmaster has complete control over your browsing. It's also annoying for those with disabilities such as dial-up connection.
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Tip: IE doesn't completely disable right-click. When the dialog pops up, keep holding the right mouse button and press Enter. Release to get your contextual menu.

Why, it moved to Everything2.

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I do wish that Everything would just get a bit faster....

Who manages the site? Are they working on a 56k modem or something?

I'll be happy to offer advice on their bandwidth.

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cctv is closed circuit television, as per
everything2

I know there is a compiler online for the nes and the snes

There are common assemblers for NES and SNES. NES's 2A03 is a 6502 (same arch as Apple II and C=64) with an on-die sound generator. SNES's 65816 is nearly the same as that of the Apple IIGS. Neither is C-friendly. The 32-bit 68000 in the Sega Genesis, on the other hand, has a version of GCC.

but their cart based so you couldn't just trade them

It's relatively easy to make an EEPROM cartridge for NES; start here. Edit, compile, emulate, edit, compile, emulate, ... burn on to EEPROM, test for bugs tripped up by emu inaccuracies. Just make sure you never use NESticle for testing.

It would be nice if they did opensource their development tools.

Standard "why don't they just free the software" response: For one thing, they might have licensed technology and not licensed the right to sub-license it to the community. (This may be much of why NVIDIA hasn't freed the drivers for its video cards.)

For another thing, game companies sell software. They don't want competition from software designed to run on their older consoles. This is why Nintendo is going after not only ROMs but also emulators, even when such emulators are used to develop free software for old consoles.

Also, there are trademarks and copyrights on the games' content itself. If you have a devkit, you can rip graphics from Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon and use them in your own games.

the great thing about consoles is that the programmers can't just throw in a little extra and say "Oh, they'll upgrade".

But that's exactly what Nintendo did for the Super NES. The programming model for the Super NES CPU and picture generator wasn't that much different from that of the NES. Even though the sound was radically different (NES had 20 registers in CPU address space; Super NES had a mini-DSP in the space of a separate processor with an extremely obscure instruction set), most game publishers just used Nintendo's sound driver from Super Mario World (it was provided with the dev kits). In fact, backwards compatibility with NES games was planned but later dropped.

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

Anyone remember the "Earth" application from Snowcrash (Neal Stephenson)? That seems to be the ideal point towards which all of this is evolving.. check out the Planet-Earth project which is directly inspired by Snowcrash as well as H2G2 and Everything2.

For one thing, digital wireless communication devices are not considered "cellular."

1P: Well, dem whole monkey twice the pudding octopi for ... tango man.
Salesman: I sense a little ... confusion.
1P: Yeah, very blender shoes cellular, scooter my daisyheads.
Salesman: You said ... cellular.
1P: Tiddly-day.
Salesman: Those cellular plans, they can really confuse you. (Hands 1P a communicator.) Here, the new Sprint PCS Free & Clear plan lets you choose one free option: long distance, nights and weekends, or wireless web.
1P: And all the calls are clear.
Salesman: Well said.
Announcer: Choose one free option. Introducing the new Sprint PCS Free & Clear plan.
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If there is someone left with rights that has the power to sue for loses, then that is the same someone that would be required to continue its support or that person/company would probably be liable for damages in the first place.

When a f__ked company dies, a holding company buys up its assets, including GGM[0] rights. The holding company may then discontinue the product and support therefor, leaving you with no central license servers.

"So crack it." Four letters: DMCA. And even a copyright owner brings about no legal action, the Federal government can still prosecute criminal copyright infringers in the US.

Rented software (and proprietary software in general) give me too much discomfort for me to continue using them more than absolutely necessary. A large library of free software makes this "absolutely necessary" absolutely small.

[0] Government Granted Monopoly. I prefer this term to "IP" (intellectual property) because it more accurately describes how the United States Code treats copyright, trademark, and patent issues.

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"

Tim Berners-Lee (from www.everything2.com)

"The creator of the World Wide Web. Probably had no idea that his scheme for presenting physics research would be used for fishcams, porn, or Everything."

or

"The man started with grand ethereal visions; he uses the phrase 'World Wide Web' to mean 'the universe of information'. His approach to getting there on the other hand was extremely down to earth: in practice, the Web is a simple and practical methodology for document exchange over TCP/IP, based on a new universal Internet document addressing method, the URL, a new TCP/IP protocol, HTTP, and a new document descripton language, HTML, and it reached the world in the form of a functional range of software tools, originally programmed on the NeXT platform in Objective C, later ported to C to work on other platforms.

His team's combination of very high reaching ideals and a very practical approach to implementation, later shared by other Web pioneers, accounts for its enormous success.

I will never forget the sight of him at one of the early WWW conferences, where thousands of people, including the big guys from some of the big software vendors and research labs, and people like Ted Nelson, had come to his workplace, the CERN lab in Geneva, to share the excitement about this new world of interlinked information that once had existed only in his own mind. He was nervous and seemed pretty much overwhelmed by the whole event. It's exciting to see a man's wildest dream become reality!"