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Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues
wiedzmin writes "A low-profile Chicago biologist, Michael Doyle, and his company Eola Technologies, who has once won a $521m patent lawsuit against Microsoft, claim that it was actually he and two co-inventors who invented, and patented, the "interactive web" before anyone else, back in 1993. Doyle argues that a program he created to allow doctors to view embryos over the early Internet, was the first program that allowed users to interact with images inside of a web browser window. He is therefore seeking royalties for the use of just about every modern interactive Internet technology, like watching videos or suggesting instant search results. Dozens of lawyers, representing the world's biggest internet companies, including Yahoo, Amazon, Google and YouTube are acting as defendants in the case, which has even seen Tim Berners-Lee testify on Tuesday."
Why has Al Gore gone mad? Why is he suing so many companies?
This joke is sooooooo Old!
The only saving grace is that it never gets old :)
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I think this is a sign of the times, because if $521 million isn't enough, I blame inflation. This troll is obviously starving and homeless because there not a bridge in existence big enough. Also, I invented the light bulb in 1995. Pay up bitches.
i thought that fucking idiot steve jobs was dead - is this crap from beyond the grave or something?
So the circus had finally started for REAL at last ...
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It's come to this now? How bad does it have to get before the entire system is scrapped?
Unfortunately the same guy who claims he invented the internet also claims to have a patent on scrapping the patent system, so we'll never find out how bad it would have to get.
Wow! You must have a whole team of comedy writers behind you to come up with such original wit.
Unfortunately for him, entering text with a keyboard was my idea (and I have a few friends who remember me saying it) so he owes me royalties for that patent petition!
I filed for a patent on this joke in 1999, and, as soon as it is approved, I plan to sue everyone who ever used it into bankruptcy.
Old, yes. But, at least five moderators + me think it's funny enough to CTRL_F gore, just so we could read it.
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This guy claims he "allowed users to interact with images inside of a web browser window" ?? So a web browser was invented before the web itself? Can we ask him if the chicken or egg came first?
He is a biologist. He would be the one to ask.
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Al Gore claimed to have invented the intarwebs
Jesus F. Christ, give this a rest. This wasn't funny the first time I heard this bullshit in about 1999, and it sure hasn't improved with age.
But the nerd rage that follows is always hilarious !
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chuck norris communicates digitally by punching you in the face with his left fist for zero and right fist for one.
What's next? Will Bill Gates be said to have invented the microchip?
Wasn't that Kim Jong-il?
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Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues
Al Gore is gonna be sooo mad...
Hah. Everybody knows that America comprises two continents.