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Berners-Lee regrets the HTTP slashes
Blog Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the HyperText Transfer Protocol, regrets specifying the characters "//" in the protocol. Berners-Lee told The New York Times last week that the characters, used in web addresses after the "http:", were a...
[October 14, 2009, 16:37 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Berners-Lee honoured for creating the Web
Talkback Congratulations Tim Berners-Lee who, more than any other has influenced and improved communications between us all.
About: Berners-Lee honoured for creating the Web
[April 16, 2004, 10:35]
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
Talkback "Although Berners-Lee offered his support for Net neutrality, he does not support a completely unregulated telecoms and Internet market. Berners-Lee supports property rights violations such as this, it's obvious he doesn't support a "completely...
About: Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
[May 23, 2006, 18:22]
Berners-Lee HAS ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING ONLINE NOWADAYS!
Talkback "If [third parties] are using the data for political ends or commercial interest, there we have to draw the line," Berners-Lee said. There's a gap between running a successful internet service and looking inside data packets.
About: Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
[June 18, 2009, 23:26 by THEINTERNET]
PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. So that Government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the...
[June 10, 2009, 14:46 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
Talkback Under, er, stuff people should know-Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein Mr. AT Alishtari, POA and Founder EDI Secure LLLP, says most people don't know how important the Ice family the patent holders to Internet Broadcasting and Single Use...
About: Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
[August 22, 2005, 5:37]
RE: PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Comment While Berners-Lee is an expert in information systems and linked data, I doubt his skills of persuasion are as finely honed. It's an interesting move, but I fear it will do little more than catch headlines.
[June 10, 2009, 15:58 by Jonathan Bennett]
And the winner is Tim Berners-Lee
Blog Tim Berners-Lee The best clerihew celebrates, not Bill Gates, but a paragon whose contribution to IT has empowered all of us to create great and worthwhile things. Over at Miss Conduct, the winner is announced:
[July 12, 2008, 8:52 in Not Safe For Work by PeterJudge]
Berners-Lee arises as Sir Tim
Talkback get them while you can, some idiot want to replace the empire with txcellence. When I get one I hope it will still be empire or i will not accept it, I promise! samuel
About: Berners-Lee arises as Sir Tim
[July 19, 2004, 19:18]
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
Talkback I think both camps have their valid points. There is a need to have premium content/bandwidth (If nothing else, for funding method). But there is the danger of unfair discrimination/favoritism. Perhaps legislating that the difference in bandwidth...
About: Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
[May 24, 2006, 13:29]
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
Talkback '.is the concept' by which you mean 'is the principle'. Learn English, duh. Stop using 'concept' as a catch-all substitute for thinking. US-only problem at present" - Sure, like smoking and sex-harassment.c.
About: Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
[May 25, 2006, 2:53]
Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
Talkback Damn right, well done to the Germans, without the web where would we be today? For a lot of us, I think another job is the answer!
About: Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
[August 19, 2005, 17:08]
Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
Talkback Berners-Lee had the genius to use open protocols and formats, that allowed his good idea to take off. Nothing else could have. Earlier attempts for decades to dominate a network or force through a new technology failed, largely because each and...
About: Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
Web Science, texting, and creative misuse
Blog You'd have thought that, having invented it, Tim Berners-Lee would know how the web worked. but Berners-Lee has a very good point: there are so many different things being done on the web, in so many different ways, that it's difficult to tell what...
[November 2, 2006, 12:00 in News Blog by Jonathan Bennett]
Outrage at Gates' knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates is every bit as deserving of knighthood as Tim Berners-Lee, Harold Evans, and other "noble" people who came before Bill. Tim Berners Lee: the "supremely modest" genius, is neither. Tim Berners Lee, oh excuse me, Sir Timothy, having...
About: Outrage at Gates' knighthood
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
Supreme Court rules against file swapping
Talkback It was actually Tim Berners Lee who did invented the internet (although not all of it) and he's British" Tim Berners Lee invented the internet did he? Your Tim Beners Lee may have invented the internet in your dreams, this happens to be real life.
About: Supreme Court rules against file swapping
[June 29, 2005, 13:22]
It
Talkback Contrary to what most people seem to believe, the Internet took decades to begin to realise its potential to connect the whole world: the magic formula turned out to be the simple IP technology for building and connecting networks plus Berners-Lee...
About: A new science for a new age
[November 3, 2006, 11:16 by jeremyparsons]
RE: Social media's double edged sword
Blog Comment Whether Tim Berners-Lee accepts this definition of Web 2.0 is a moot point, as it has become the de facto term for the collective of such technologies and is in fairly common use. Not only would Berners-Lee not recognise this, I argued that most...
[August 1, 2008, 14:32 by wecando.biz]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Desperate to make amends for declaring a jihad on the technology community, Queen Elizabeth has dubbed http://tim.berners.lee a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Thrilled by this ultimate vindication of his vision, Berners-Lee...
[July 16, 2004, 17:50 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
The Today Programme's fear of a tech planet
Blog They try, bless 'em, but this morning the 8am headlines said "Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Internet. Cue email meltdown. By 8:25, the irascible Humphries was forced to admit defeat and try and sort it out due to the number of...
[November 2, 2006, 8:09 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
