Very good, Mike!
Chris
> On 30 Jan 2018, at 15:32, Mike Bloor <admin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In 1981 I was using one of the first IBM PCs. It was bought in Sears in
> Chicago and shipped to Ireland with a 220/110V transformer and one of every
> accessory card available.
>
> At the time I had a small kitten named Clarissa. She liked to sit on top of
> the monitor, where it was nice and warm, while I worked. Every hour or so
> though she would climb down and stand on the edge of the keyboard. Every
> single time "www" appeared on the screen. This happened so often that she
> began to be called www instead of Clarissa.
>
> Little did I realise at the time that my cat had invented the World Wide Web,
> around eight years before Tim Berners Lee stole the idea from a helpless
> kitten.
>
> Mike Bloor
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