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
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On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.
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Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 percent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it.
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The original idea of the Web was about supporting the way people already work socially, but this doesn't happen with a lot of IT projects.
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It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
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It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
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The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
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There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
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There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.
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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
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I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
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The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
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In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.