Posted on 12/21/2005 10:34:23 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog just in time for the 15th anniversary of his invention.
In his first entry, Berners-Lee remarked on how the Web took off as a publishing medium rather than one in which visitors not only read but also contributed information.
"WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship," he wrote.
That has changed lately with the growing popularity of blogs, which are online diaries that often let visitors submit comments, and wikis, which are sites in which visitors can add, change and even delete what they see.
Their popularity "makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space," wrote Berners-Lee, who added that he decided to start a blog to get a chance to play with blogging tools.
Berners-Lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research. He never got the project formally approved, but quietly tinkered with it anyway, making the first browser available at CERN by Christmas Day 1990.
Tim Berners-Lee, Director of World Wide Web Consortium, speaks during a Technology Review magazine's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a Cambridge, Mass. file photo from Sept. 29, 2004. World Wide Web creator Berners-Lee has started a blog just in time for the 15th anniversary of his invention. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)
Al Gore invented HTML. ;-)
BS everyone knows AL Gore invented the internet. :D
That's what I thought too...algore invented the internet.
HUH??
Actually, the Defense Department invented the internet. This is about the web, not the net.
I was just acting like a wise guy. :D
Most IT geeks are.
Euro-spew.
What a bunch of weenies.
I thought Al Gore created the World Wide Web, the internet etc.... /sarc
uhh...not the ultimate ones
Michael Dell (89% GOP, 3% Dem, 8% special interest)
Bill Gates (32% GOP, 23% Dem, 45% special interest)
Steve Ballmer (41% GOP, 16% Dem, 43% special interest)
Meg Whitman (71% GOP, 6% Dem, 23% special interest)
All supported the President.
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