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
phones important information
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
goal humanity able
The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
dream space information
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
responsibility use kind
IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
keys innovation internet
Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
buttons browsers objectives
The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.
essentials disability aspect
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,
royalty infrastructure company
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
technology space able
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
strings-attached water house
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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You affect the world by what you browse.
differences diversity people
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.
software engineers interpreter
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
simple numbers giving
I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.