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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designed
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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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.
smart ideas people
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
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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.
phones tvs development
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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.
phones important information
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any 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,
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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.