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
designed future net people run
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
running splits site
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
running data organization
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
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.
people throughout
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
designed
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
amazing people pick quickly
It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.
computers promote reflect web
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
adjustment interact microsoft nearly people percent recently sort system
Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 percent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it.
imagine power sorts
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.
felt internet people realise time tool
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.
happen original people supporting web work
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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There could still be a huge battle which leaves a big mess and fragments the Web into two pieces whenever a new feature comes along.