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born 1955 England
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.
Also known as: Tim Berners Lee
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The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission.
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.
In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else.
Weaving the Web (1999)
We’ve lost a fighter. We’ve lost somebody who put huge energy into righting wrongs.
I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web.
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.
I don't mind there being biased information out there. The important thing is that you should know, when you're on the web, whether you're looking at biased information or not.
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world. We clump into family, association, and companies.
It is 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.
The web is more a social creation than a technical one.
Weaving the Web (1999)
When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space — does change the parameters.
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
Social media companies are using machine-learning techniques to make users addicted to their platforms. These systems are designed to be addictive, feeding people more and more extreme content, making them alternately angry and sad.
This Is for Everyone (2025)
Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own.
Weaving the Web (1999)
The web setting out as something which was universal, something which anybody could use, I felt was very important. It's no good having something which will run on any platform if, in fact, there is a proprietary hold on it.
I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings — and the Web's a form of communications — so it generally should be good.
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