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In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.
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The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
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The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
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It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
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Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
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When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
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Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
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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.
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Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
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People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
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It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
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Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
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The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
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I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
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Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
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