‘In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.
Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn’t demand a what you see is what you get editor. WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship.
Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space. (i could put that in EXTRA BOLD!!)’
Tim Berners-Lee has the most incredible title someone can get – he is the inventor of the World Wide Web.
December 2005, he now has a blog.
Encore une fois, Émue. Interesting to go trough the 455 comments from people thanking him for creating the web. I for sure have to thank him too.
Its the first time i heard about him. I always thinked that the US Army invented all that.
Yeah I though too that the US Army had invented the internet…