{"id":1557,"date":"2005-12-22T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2005\/12\/22\/hi-im-the-inventor-of-the-world-wide-web\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:47","slug":"hi-im-the-inventor-of-the-world-wide-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/hi-im-the-inventor-of-the-world-wide-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, i&#8217;m the inventor of the World Wide Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;<i>In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. <b>It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute.<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t demand a what you see is what you get editor. <b>WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn&#8217;t crazy to think people needed a creative space.<\/b><\/i> (i could put that in EXTRA BOLD!!)&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tim Berners-Lee has the most incredible title someone can get &#8211; he is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim-Berners_Lee\">the inventor of the World Wide Web<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>December 2005, he now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/dig.csail.mit.edu\/breadcrumbs\/blog\/4\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Encore une fois, \u00c9mue. Interesting to go trough the <a href=\"http:\/\/dig.csail.mit.edu\/breadcrumbs\/node\/38#comment\">455 comments<\/a>  from people thanking him for creating the web. I for sure have to thank him too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/hi-im-the-inventor-of-the-world-wide-web\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hi, i&#8217;m the inventor of the World Wide Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}