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Quarter of world online as internet turns 40
News In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee and others at Cern proposed a new protocol based on a hypertext system of embedding links into text. In 1990, Berners-Lee also created the world's first web server, known as Cern httpd, which ran on NeXTSTEP, and in 1991...
[October 29, 2009, 15:59]
Browser benchmarks: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari review
Reviews When Tim Berners-Lee presented his employer CERN with the first browser, WorldWideWeb, to facilitate information flow between the different departments in the European nuclear research centre in Geneva, he little suspected that it would cause a...
[May 23, 2008, 16:40]
US stands firm over Internet control
Talkback Berners-Lee is the one who started the internet.father of the internet - or however you want to call it. Is he an American? no. He is from Europe man - London. Studied in England. Are the google guys all American - nei.
[November 13, 2005, 21:37]
The technical culture has been very discriminatory!
Talkback Berners-Lee in swallowing the latest multicultural party line is that he is indeed a member of the "stupid" male geek culture. There's been a lot of sexual discrimination in the technical workplace in the last 30 years - virtually all of it against...
[September 22, 2007, 5:31]
Vote Bill Gates on Clerihew Day!
Blog Miss Conduct is running a Clerihew competition , and the five finalists include both Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee. Technologists figure prominently as the subjects of amusing poems, in a competition to celebrate Clerihew Day, july 10.
[July 10, 2008, 10:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary 02.04.2001
Blog God may or may not be an Englishman, but Tim Berners-Lee certainly is; even the chaps over in the United States who created the rest of the Internet speak what can be thought of as some form of English.
[April 2, 2001, 12:51]
Opinion: Does the Net belong to America?
News And although Tim Berners-Lee (the guy who invented the World Wide Web back in 1990) is a Brit, let's not kid ourselves: The cultural and economic epicenter of the information age remains on the US side of the Atlantic.
[March 27, 2000, 11:43]
Social media's double edged sword
Blog Comment In 2006, Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee sagely observed that "nobody knows what it means": http://tinyurl.com/y6ewzy Web 2.0 Is Like Pornography Like so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references "Web...
[August 1, 2008, 13:12]
US stands firm over Internet control
Talkback Instead of been more down to earth and admitting that the Internet and in particular the web was a multiple nations invention.the w.w.w was created at CERN European Agency by an Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee).
[May 17, 2006, 22:28]
Don't forget the tools
Talkback Furthermore if Sir Tim berners Lee hadn't 'invented' the Internet then cybercrime wouldn't exist so ultimately it must be his fault that the crime took place. It is getting sillier by the day taking siarad's comments further where does...
[November 30, 2009, 18:15]
Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News Technology experts including Tim Berners-Lee have questioned the privacy implications of organisations using DPI, but Phorm executives on Tuesday said there would be no privacy problems with the tool.
[June 3, 2009, 15:31]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
News The new, more powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is being built at CERN, the same Swiss laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web. Scientists in Switzerland are hard at work building a machine...
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
W3C launches mobile standards push
News Mobile access to the Web has been a second-class experience for far too long," Web founding father and W3C director Tim Berners-Lee said in a statement. The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its mobile Web...
[May 12, 2005, 9:50]
Semantic web on verge of commercial viability
News Semantic web — a concept championed by 'father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee — is the development of a world wide web where the context of information and services is defined to make web content more searchable and useful.
[August 12, 2008, 9:08]
W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0
News Trying to use the Semantic Web without Sparql is like trying to use a relational database without SQL," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C director and creator of the world wide web. The web-standards body W3C has published Sparql, a query language designed...
[January 18, 2008, 14:25]
W3C and WAP Forum team up on wireless Web specs
News Our liaison relationship with the WAP Forum will work towards the seamless integration of mobile devices and the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, director of W3C, in a statement. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the WAP Forum have announced a...
[December 10, 1999, 10:53]
Supreme Court rules against file swapping
Talkback But the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. Smithy, et al. FYI:From Time magazines '100 most important people of the century': Unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work of one man.
[June 29, 2005, 14:37]
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News HTML is of course a very important standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML, and W3C director. The World Wide Web Consortium has published a public draft of the first major upgrade to HTML in over a decade.
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
File under ground
Leader Some of the most exciting ideas online are to do with data, metadata and the tools to handle them: when Tim Berners-Lee uses a public forum to ask Frank Mantek of Google to implement a SPARQL interface, take note.
[June 27, 2006, 16:55]
The Myths of Innovation review
Reviews Tim Berners-Lee says he had no 'Eureka' moment. The late American talk show host Johnny Carson used to like to ask guests how they became overnight successes. The answers invariably detailed a decade or more of hard work and failed efforts while...
[May 19, 2008, 8:25]
