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Cables to Happiness |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5505 Cables to Happiness 01 July 2006 Spinning upon a universal web this place of love weaving new strands Across an ocean, a wire joined cables to happiness, but not true love Wanting and in near by hope, Canaan to heart a southern existence, unsheltered in pain To the wild winds, a good hope to faith her eyes neither visible, blindness through glass Age another presence, spirited to adjoin half and whole, and whole and half again Poetry in verses, emptiness unrepentant a love unfeigned, yet never what real is This place of love weaving new strands spinning upon a universal web Cables to happiness, but what of love true across an ocean, a wire of visibility joined between Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE, [born 08 June 1955] is the inventor of the World Wide Web [along with Robert Cailliau] Berners-Lee was born in London, England, and attended Emanuel School in Wandsworth. He was an alumnus of the Queen's College of Oxford University, where he built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. It was also at Oxford where after he was caught hacking with a friend, he was subsequently banned from using the university computer. In 1980, while an independent contractor at CERN, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire. He later used similar ideas to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first browser. The first website Berners-Lee built [and therefore the first web site] was first put online on 06 August 1991. (The Internet and World Wide Web having different origins) © 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet) a poet who cares |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
I would say we owe much to this Sir Timothy, don't we?! Yes, "cables to happiness" is a perfect definition for the worldwide web, at least it reflects one of its many positive characteristics. Nice job. Love, Margherita  |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
quote: Indeed, I owe my husband to this World Wide Web ... quote: Well of course, everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet!  |
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