![]() ![]() Tim also wrote the first web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb.app”) and the first web server (“httpd“). Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web. A kind of “address” that is unique and used to identify to each resource on the web. The markup (formatting) language for the web. Image: CERNīy October of 1990, Tim had written the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your web browser): He began work using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products. The web was never an official CERN project, but Mike managed to give Tim time to work on it in September 1990. ![]() In fact, his boss at the time, Mike Sendall, noted the words “Vague but exciting” on the cover. Believe it or not, Tim’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. In March 1989, Tim laid out his vision for what would become the web in a document called “ Information Management: A Proposal”. Already, millions of computers were being connected together through the fast-developing internet and Berners-Lee realised they could share information by exploiting an emerging technology called hypertext. Tim thought he saw a way to solve this problem – one that he could see could also have much broader applications. Often it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having coffee…”, Tim says. Also, sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer. “In those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Scientists come from all over the world to use its accelerators, but Sir Tim noticed that they were having difficulty sharing information. Later on, when I was in college I made a computer out of an old television set.”Īfter graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Then I ended up getting more interested in electronics than trains. “I made some electronic gadgets to control the trains. Growing up, Sir Tim was interested in trains and had a model railway in his bedroom. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech." - Berners-Lee T.Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. I am worried that that is going to end in the USA. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. "When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. But I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good… We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?" – Interview with developerWorks "The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space - does change the parameters. "The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.” He is also wary of the amount of private data and information people share online, and how the Web has been abused by companies. One of his ideas is a “decentralised” Internet - a hive network where no one has overall control and believes monopolies are dangerous. The biggest threat is for any large powerful force to take over the Internet." So you could say big companies control the government anyway. ![]() There’s a popular bumper sticker in Washington, ‘Invest in America, buy a Congressman’. In America, the big companies fund congressmen and election campaigns. "It actually turns out to be more subtle than that. "I used to say it was either government controlling the Internet, in countries like China, or big companies controlling the Internet, in countries like America," he said at the time. He previously told the Standard that he feels the concept of a free Internet is threatened by big companies. Sir Tim is a vocal supporter of the concept of net neutrality and of free Internet. How does Sir Tim feel about the World Wide Web now? New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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