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Re: They're at it again...

  • From: Christopher E. Brown
  • Date: Fri Mar 12 23:54:40 1999

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jeff Aitken wrote:
> 
> > Now that all these folks have laid claim to inventing the Internet,
> > I wonder who will take the credit (blame?) for inventing the web?
> 
> Microsoft, of course.  Give people a year or so of the "your desktop is
> the web / the web is your desktop" mantra and it will seem quite natural
> that Microsoft invented the web.  I mean most people think they invented
> the "General Protection Fault", right?


	Course not, they bought out the inventing company and added a
feature to all their software.

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