tim berners lee | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:07:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png tim berners lee | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 The internet’s creator want’s it to stay free and open https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/the-internets-creator-wants-it-to-stay-free-and-open/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/the-internets-creator-wants-it-to-stay-free-and-open/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:07:10 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=176620 One of the founding fathers of the internet and creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about the current state of the internet in the March issue of Wired magazine, stating that he doesn't want to see countries developing their own closed off internet infrastructure in order to keep the rest …

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One of the founding fathers of the internet and creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about the current state of the internet in the March issue of Wired magazine, stating that he doesn't want to see countries developing their own closed off internet infrastructure in order to keep the rest of the world out.

“I want a web that's open, works internationally, works as well as possible and is not nation-based,” Berners-Lee said, highlighting examples like Brazil and Iran which are both developing their own internal internet platforms. It's not all of their fault he said, pointing the finger at schemes like PRISM and Tempora as to overreaching that has hugely decreased trust in international, specifically Western, digital business.

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However he seems relatively optimistic about the future, suggesting that at least big companies will be unlikely to develop the monopolies that are required for a really restrictive internet, because competition is just too fierce to let that happen. It's self censorship that may come in the wake of NSA spying that does have him worrying though and the fact that distrust between governments over spying may mean the creation of digital iron curtains in places like China.

He also defended Edward Snowden, saying men like him needed protection more than anything: “It's a really important culture, it's important to have the geek community as a whole think about its responsibility and what it can do. We need various alternative voices pushing back on conventional government sometimes.”

KitGuru Says: Any time someone prominent comes out in favour of the an open internet it gives me hope. My career and livelihood is only possible because people around the world can read what I write, but more than that, the internet's international neutrality has the greatest potential to bring us all together, despite the trolls. It lets anyone talk to anyone and that's something that's never been possible in human history. It's so, so important. 

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20 Years since the first website was published https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/20-years-since-the-first-website-was-published/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/20-years-since-the-first-website-was-published/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:20:52 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=55212 It is amazing how quickly time flies. Wired published an interesting article over the weekend which showed that it is in fact 20 years now since the first website was published. It was created by 36 year old physicist Time Berners Lee who worked at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps. ‘Info.cern.ch was the …

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It is amazing how quickly time flies. Wired published an interesting article over the weekend which showed that it is in fact 20 years now since the first website was published. It was created by 36 year old physicist Time Berners Lee who worked at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps.

‘Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centred on information regarding the WWW project. Visitors could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information. There are no screenshots of this original page and, in any case, changes were made daily to the information available on the page as the WWW project developed. You may find a later copy (1992) on the World Wide Web Consortium website.'

At the time, Berners Lee and a few of his colleagues were the only people who had access to web browsing software and most of the word didn't even know what was going on behind closed doors. As the years passed, web servers and browsing software developed and here we are now 20 years later, with the net being an integral part of everyone's life.

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Wired explain the foundation of the W3C “In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (often referred to as “W3C”) at MIT in order to create standards for the web to ensure that different websites would all work the same way. Berners-Lee, now 56, is still the director of the W3C, in addition to several other positions he holds. While there are and surely always will be some deviations from the standards by many websites and browsers, it’s not a stretch to say that the web as we know it would probably not exist if not for the W3C’s guidance.

It can be hard now, even for many of us who regularly used the Internet before there was a World Wide Web, to remember that there was a time when the two terms weren’t considered nearly synonymous by the general public. Of course, that’s partly because, before the proliferation of websites that followed Mosaic’s release (and for some time thereafter), most members of the general public didn’t have the least idea that the Internet even existed.”

Kitguru says: 20 years later and the web has taken over our lives. For the better or for the worse?

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