[peel] Re: New Entry at Number 4......

[Thomas Blatchford]

Quite. His comment about http:// makes me laugh: 
http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/14/berners-lee-internet-what-would-you-change/ 



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From: Eddie Duffy <eddie.duffy@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 17 November, 2009 15:44:20
Subject: [peel] Re: New Entry at Number 4......

  
Agreed, Thomas -- although Berners-Lee didn't invent the Internet either: his innovation was the WWW.

Eddie.

> i would DEFINITELY agree with Tim Berners-Lee mind. i seem to recall there was a survey a few years ago that said the majority of people believed Bill Gates started the internet or something. Berners-Lee and Peel are the two people most responsible for this group even existing!
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> From: Eddie Duffy <eddie.duffy@ ...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Tue, 17 November, 2009 13:20:45
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> Hmm, "unsung"? I don't think I'd go along with that. And presumably, neither would the writer of this Grauniad article from about a year ago:
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> http://www.guardian .co.uk/music/ musicblog/ 2008/oct/ 22/john-peel- hero-worship
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> I seem to remember JP being placed pretty highly in that "Great Britons" thing a few years back, much to his embarrassment. Apparently, when a journalist told him this and asked for his reaction, Peelie suspected it was some sort of Chris Morris-style sting, designed to prey on celebrities' egos.
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> Eddie.
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "billfromnorthwales " <billfromnorthwales @...> wrote:
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> > http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/magazine/ 8363153.stm
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