Robert Cailliau
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Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliauis a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist. Cailliau helped Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web and organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth26 January 1947
CityTongeren, Belgium
CountryBelgium
death nor punished suck
I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.
recovery data humanity
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
community alternatives may
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
technology games people
The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.
pay economics minutes
I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.
numbers google surprise
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
blue somewhere-else giving
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.