02/ 7/2004

Tim Berners-Lee

Post @ 07:27 in Interview/Review

"Father of the Web" This is a old article from Wired.com, a interview with Tim Berners-Lee in 1997.

Wired.com

"Trained in physics at Oxford,Berners-Lee was working at the Swiss-based European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) when, in an astounding burst of creativity, he sat down in 1990 and wrote the specifications for a global hypermedia system, using the innocuous acronyms HTTP, HTML, and URL. Originally designed to let far-flung researchers collaborate on large problems, the resulting universal information space made real the dreams of hypertext visionaries from Vannevar Bush to Ted Nelson. For good measure, Berners-Lee even gave his creation a name: the WorldWideWeb.
Berners-Lee, now 41, left CERN in 1994 to found the World Wide Web Consortium, a nonprofit group of research institutions and Web technology users and providers. Headquartered at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, W3C's mandate is to try to guide the Web's evolution - a task Berners-Lee describes as frantically trying to steer a bobsled that is careering downhill at ever-accelerating speeds.

Mr. Berners-Lee also list in TIME 100 - The Most Important People of the 21 Centry.
Interview with the Web's Creator in 1999 Oct Via Wired.
Stuart Weibel Interviews Tim Berners-Lee July 29, 2003 Via OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).