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Re:Hello Americans (Score:4, Informative)
A lot of us don't live in the US and couldn't give a damn about 4 July.
I live in the US and couldn't give a cluck about July 4.
As for fireworks, the US sure picked the worst time of the year for those. Not only is it too bright to see them well, at least in the Northern states, but it's also a season where it's easy to start fires.
Re:Different from other revolution celebrations (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The 4th of December? (Score:5, Informative)
You are totally correct of course. Fuck the founding fathers for not holding off until winter before starting a war of independence against a tyrant. THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.
You can't be American, because you're apparently unaware that the Declaration of Independence was signed long after the war started.
It also didn't take effect until years later, when we became independent. Our nation's birthday is September 3 1783. July 4 1776 was more like a baby shower during pregnancy.
CERN, not just Brits, and SGML,GIF,JPEG (Score:5, Informative)
Sir Tim is a Brit, but he was working at CERN, an international collaboration in Europe. Somebody once said that Sir Tim invented 80-90% of what the web needed, while Ted Nelson invented 120%, which is why we use HTTP/HTML instead of Xanadu.
URLs were really the big win - most previous hypertext systems were contained on single platforms, whether it was Apple Hypercard or whatever, while URLs let the hypertext connect pages by multiple authors and organizations. The other big win was including pictures in practical widespread formats.
HTML wasn't as big an invention - it was a derivative of SGML, and five years before the web I was a newbie on documentation standards committees that were using SGML and vector-based graphics standards (and even back then, there were people who got that the big win was content description, not format description, and many of the problems we have today are because too many people lost sight of that and wanted authors to control presentation instead of readers, forcing us to deal with flash and Javascript and lots of other brokenness.)