Tim Berners-Lee

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English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He implemented the first successful HTTP communication.

“The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS”

“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World”

“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. Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World”

“Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners”

“I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him. developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners”

“Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?”

“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and”

“Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext”

“WorldWideWeb wide”

“Information Management: A Proposal”