@w3c what I've always loved about this photo is the wording of the T shirts: Vint is not the sort of person who uses contractions...

’Success has many Fathers (#Inventors), whilst #Failure is an orphan’. These two sad #oldgits should just #STFU and go away.

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@w3c once overheard a tour guide at CERN "you see this plate? This is where the world wide web was invented. Do you know what this means? The world wide web - the INTERNET - was invented here"

That said, I don't think pedantry helps us anything here. www is colloquially just internet in 90ies English, so include the Wikipedia articles on the t-shirts or don't bother. The guide was tiptoeing the line of "technically correct while deliberately misleading" and slipped into "actually wrong".

@w3c You should sell two-packs with both to the rest of us ;)

@w3c Looks like one of them is about to give birth to something!

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I'm absolutely not surprised after the average people have been confused about the difference between the internet and the world wide web for quite some time. It's just fitting to confuse the two men too, they are at least being consistent.

@w3c I can not really explain it but I derive a lot of joy knowing these people are still alive, and Linus even if he is a bit of a dick, and old men who talk about the early cryptowars

It all happened so fast, it makes my mind race and other times the speed is a bit nauseating

@w3c How did they expect their inventions to do good in the world?

@w3c nice touch with the "didn't" on Tim's shirt (instead of did not)

@w3c which one is Tim?

@w3c This reminds me!

I once interviewed Vint Cerf for a project that never got finished (Curse you ADHD!!), he's a very chill person, who else would accept an interview from a (then) 14 year old?

(I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing him, I'll link the interview video later if you all want)

(Gods this sounds like bragging, and it kinda is, but I just think it's cool and I want to share it)

@w3c "You may ask one question."

@w3c this is obviously untrue, everyone knows Jon Postel invented the Internet and web, for how could they exist without RFC, IANA, and other such critical work.

@w3c Did they decide individually whether or not their shirt would use contractions? :)

@w3c That's a great photo. Does anyone know if either are on Mastodon, or the Fediverse in general?

@w3c Did Bob Metcalfe get a combo shirt with both messages?

@w3c This feels like a fake. Vint Cerf in anything less than a three-piece suit? Shocking!

I'll just sit quietly over here with Dave Arneson and Nicola Tesla.

@w3c hello

@w3c Vint Cerf has a very pointy outie!

@w3c one created the roads and the other created the vehicles to travel those roads?

@w3c how many billions of dollars do they own?

@w3c Vint Cerf did too invent the Web. That's why we call it Web Cerfing.

@w3c some excellent shirt wearing that @shirtforce would appreciate

@w3c could we not minimize the contribution of at least a dozen people involved in inventing the original ARPAnet? Cerf did major work but so did Jon Postel and others. No single person invented the internet.

@w3c So the avenging dragon of the library gods only has two heads? I’d expect at least 7-12.

@w3c reminds me we had this on our end of Year Trivia Question and most didn't get it right

@w3c OMG I did not know both of them, thanks for the heads up!