The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and later that year carried out the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server over the Internet. He built the first web browser and web server and helped guide the Web's later development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the Web's continued development, and with Rosemary Leith he co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation. In 2009 he was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
He proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and later that year carried out the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server over the Internet. He built the first web browser and web server and helped guide the Web's later development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the Web's continued development, and with Rosemary Leith he co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation. In 2009 he was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.