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
running writing innovation
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
smart ideas people
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
differences diversity people
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.
technology world old-technology
You affect the world by what you browse.
data issues networking
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
philosophical engineering physics
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
keys innovation internet
Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
technology past bigger
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
thinking long people
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.
phones tvs development
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
high-heels names important
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
people enabling information
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
believe thinking ideas
I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.
people pages clicks
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.