On a flight from SFO to Boston the person in the next seat thought Tim O'Reilly is the inventor of the web. I was surprised to hear that, but if you think about it, the hype sort of says that.
He claims to have coined the phrase Web 2.0™ (often summarized as "invented" in the press and on blogs) and I guess it's logical to assume that the inventor of the 2.0 version of something is the inventor of the thing itself.
I explained that he is actually something other than the inventor of the web, what exactly that is, I'll leave up to others to say.
BTW, interesting to see what comes up on a search for invent "web 2.0".
Also, I did not invent the web. ";->"
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~About the Author~
Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.
"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.
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