Edison: Invents first practical lightbulb Twitter: "It's just an electric GAS LAMP. You literally invented a GAS LAMP"
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Or you know, Tesla.
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I said “practical” for a reason
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I know, But it was marketed would have been a better word imo, it was essentially Tesla design, just marketed much better. So Marketed not invented.
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This is a copy of
@BenedictEvans's also terrible tweethttps://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/972484822454054913 … -
I saw his tweet, but wasn’t a copy
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I said this the first time I saw Dropbox. “It’s FTP. You literally invented FTP.”
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You didn’t say the same thing? Like wow this is a nice looking FileZilla?
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nope... i was like 'oh man finally i don't have to mess with filezilla to get my files places.'
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Every time someone accuses a new innovation of reinventing something that already exists, I think back to that very comment about FTP. People shouting "You reinvented X!" forget user experience and execution matter with respect to products and services.https://twitter.com/zck/status/967159093705170945 …
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Um Tim Berners-Lee did ont create the world wide wide web but did invent HTTP on the Application layer. That is per OSI 7 layers 1/7th of the web. I guess every nation needs his 'inventor' of the web


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Web != Internet Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML (based on SGML) and HTTP, which together define the World Wide Web. Of course, HTTP requires some reliable stream protocol to transport it, and that requires other layers below it. But those aren't the web.
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Oh so how you would name a bunch of cables spanning the globe? The maze?
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The internet. The Web is the HTTP/HTML protocol/application layer which sits on top of the internet. Sure, everyone uses these termsinterchangeably, but the definition Shawn and I are giving here is pretty standard.
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The web is built of interconnected documents. The 'net' of interconnected computers.
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Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web while working for CERN. just about as far conceptually from Silicon Valley as you can get
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I mean, claiming unearned credit for something that was actually funded with public money is as Silicon Valley as it gets, so...
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