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
ideas space information
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
space giving over-you
The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.
technology space able
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
space propose universal
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
numbers space people
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
dream space information
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
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.
designed future net people run
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
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.