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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and a NeXT cube during the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics in London. Background here and here.

Naturally, the TV commentators had no clue who Tim Berners-Lee was.

The NBC commentators were so fucking smug in their ignorance. I wish Americans could actually just watch the BBC feed and tell NBC to fuck themselves and their attempts to turn every element of the games into a feel-good special interest story.

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   Tim Berners-Lee and a NeXT cube in the Olympics opening ceremony. There seems to be some kerfluffle about NBC...

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   Thank you SOC167. (Hey Cal, take Virtual Communities & Social Media!)

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    Worse: it is the Owelympic™ committees that want to break the web with various things like link prohibitions, etc. Irony...

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    Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and a NeXT cube during the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics in...

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    Likte spesielt godt at de fikk...Berners-Lee til å sitte på en av Steve Jobs sin

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    Speaking of amusing things, here’s one.

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    Why CRT, seriously?

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    No, just the NBC broadcasters. The international press had it covered. But it’s not because TV commentators or their...

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