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
Tim Berners-Lee quotes about
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.
designed future net people run
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
cultural due fail people projects social supporting tend
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
technology thinking growth
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
imagination creative limits
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
buttons browsers objectives
The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.
technology space able
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
technology world old-technology
You affect the world by what you browse.
html flavor pages
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
internet ifs amount
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
usa people net-neutrality
When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
dont-change
Cool URIs don't change
technology past bigger
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.