Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocolclient and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 June 1955
html flavor pages
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
thinking years ideas
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
humanity optimist
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
problem ifs
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
marketing use machinery
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
science proposal invention
WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project
rights people want
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.
goal support world
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world . We clump into family , association, and companies.
unhappy trying example
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
dont-change
Cool URIs don't change
sex technology legends
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
usa people net-neutrality
When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
mistake technology blame
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
reading labels littles
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.