Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, started a blog! That alone would be the news. His first and only (so far, one presumes) entry was posted a week ago, and has attracted 431 worshipful comments. In it, Tim asserts that the first Web browser was a wiki-like client whose purpose was not only to read online pages, but to edit and repost them. The WWW, in other words, was originally (in 1989) conceived as a collaborative medium. Tim was surprised that the Web developed into a publishing medium that was edited offline. The recent poppularity of wikis and blogs makes Tim “feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.”
Tim Berners-Lee on the Social Web
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(Page 1)2. Very interesting how the original vision TBL had for the web is only now starting to take hold. For other technology miss steps, check out http://ludditelounge.blogspot.com
1. Thanks for sharing such information. I didn't knew this before.
Posted at 4:56AM on Dec 29th 2005 by olivia