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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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
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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.
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
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You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
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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.
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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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There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.
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I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.
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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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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.
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The recommended strategy is to employ 'smart' buying practices to reduce acquisition and support costs, including software asset management, and increase the use of standards-compliant software,'
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It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.