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The BBC is soon to launch a major new documentary, The Virtual Revolution, on the emergence of the Web and technology into society over the last 20 or so years, featuring Dr. Aleks Krotoski. Here’s an exclusive peek at Tim Berners Lee, founder of the web, on the day it was switched on:
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Jeez – what is that accent?
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The man invents the web and that’s what you comment about?
I’m pretty sure that comment threads are the one regret he has about inventing the web. Here is just the perfect example of giving a voice to the masses:
He was not the “founder” of the web. He and others at CERN made usable text hyperlinking, which had been cumbersome prior to that. But it was one of several innovations that allowed the Web (not to be confused with the Internet) to grow into something viable.
“Founder” suggests intentionally creating an entity or organisation, but the Web was a beast that took on a life all its own.
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