Sounds like a pump-and-dump scheme to me.
Not one word about what his great idea actually is. It's all out there if you cared to look.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS pretty much invented the web. He put up the first site and page on 8/6/1991. It is still there (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html).
In those early days, sites that ran web servers allowed users to put up their own information, files, programs, etc. to share. Users controlled their information. Before the web, there were gopher, ftp, and nfs (file shares spanning the network) services.
The first thing I put up onto the web was an audio file of me pronouncing my last name. That was in 1994 or so.
It seems like Berners-Lee is looking to go back to that model.
"It seems like Berners-Lee is looking to go back to that model. "
Sounds like a new way to restore individual freedom on a YUGE Gorebal network.
We'll see.
The old web we pretty inconvenient. The early attempts at a search engine just spewed hostnames and file paths to be accessed using ftp. No standards for pictures. I was at Winter 1992 (January) UseNIX conference when we attempted to create a library of pictures of attendees. The digital pictures were saved in large text files. I literally purchased a Windows machine with a good greyscale video card and wrote the graphics routine myself to decode the picture files into a viewable image. A bit odd on my amber phosphor screen, but very viewable. A few more years would elapse before Nathaniel Borenstein invented MIME to allow transport of binary artifacts with multipart documents. The sound files and picture file formats followed. We stood up our first X11 based Mosaic browsers around June 1993.