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Knighthood for Publicity-Shy Inventor of the World Wide Web
independent.co.uk ^ | December 31, 2003 | Paul Waugh and Charles Arthur

Posted on 12/31/2003 2:03:28 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker

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To: T.Smith
(American) Admiral Daniel Gallery was responsible for capturing a German U-Boat during WWII had earlier worked with the British doing convoy planning.

He was amazed at all the initials that followed all the British names on their memos...every one of them had a series of initials behind them. One night he signed a memo, "CAPT D. Gallery, DDTM". He continued doing that for weeks.

He remarked that his British allies suddenly treated him more respectfully until one day he was cornered and asked what exactly was the DDTM.

"Dan, Dan the Toilet Man".

21 posted on 12/31/2003 5:56:05 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: My2Cents
Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference?

The internet is the name of the network itself. The web is just one thing that runs on the internet.
22 posted on 12/31/2003 6:34:34 PM PST by pau1f0rd (.)
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To: My2Cents
Think of the Web as a sort of overlay on the Internet. The Internet is the system that links computers to communicate with each other, and was invented by the US military in the 60s (ARPANET). Before the World Wide Web, internet communication was through text-based email programs and things like Gopher (anyone else remember Gopher?) The Web was the beginning of http (hypertext) that allowed for the creation of graphical web pages that link to each other through hyperlinks. The Web is what most people today think of today when they think of the "Internet".
24 posted on 12/31/2003 6:39:05 PM PST by saquin
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To: saquin
"The Web is what most people today think of today..."

Ack, that was lovely. I said "today" twice, didn't I?

25 posted on 12/31/2003 6:40:54 PM PST by saquin
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To: CWOJackson
CAPT D. Gallery, DDTM

For some reason this struck me as incredibly funny.

Reminds me a bit of when I was in school and went to a karate match. To keep from paying I walked in right behind a karate team and told the ticket taker I was the team's "spiritual leader". Maybe he believed me or simply thought it wasn't worth the hassle to see if I was telling the truth. Got in for free.

27 posted on 12/31/2003 11:20:54 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (Sic Semper Tyrannus)
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To: TomInNJ
Your explanation is better than what the article gave. Thanks.
28 posted on 12/31/2003 11:22:59 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well....there you go again...")
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To: My2Cents
Well, the internet is a set of computers that were connected many years ago. When I was in college over 20 years ago, most universities were connected via the internet.

To access other computers you had to use FTP, File Transfer Protocol. It was very tedius, and mostly only computer geeks (like myself) did this.

It wasn't until the web browsers were created and made accessing the internet easy for non-computer geeks.
29 posted on 12/31/2003 11:27:12 PM PST by luckystarmom
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