Queen knights World Wide Web inventor

sde · 07-21-2004, 11:34 AM

I didn't know Al Gore was British

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne...eut/index.html

Belisarius · 07-21-2004, 01:09 PM

Al Gore created the Internet, this guy created the Web.

The earliest two uses of the Internet that I know of are e-mail and usenet. I know Al would be proud of the former, but I wonder if he wants to take credit for the latter?

sde · 07-21-2004, 01:53 PM

hah , i just don't understand how one person can be responsible for creating the web. the article does suggest his modesty though.

Belisarius · 07-21-2004, 02:02 PM

From his W3C page.

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In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. He wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the NeXTStep environment. This work was started in October 1990, and the program "WorldWideWeb" first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991.

Through 1991 and 1993, Tim continued working on the design of the Web, coordinating feedback from users across the Internet. His initial specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as the Web technology spread.

In 1994, Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since that time he has served as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium which coordinates Web development worldwide, with teams at MIT, at INRIA in France, and at Keio University in Japan. The Consortium takes as its goal to lead the Web to its full potential, ensuring its stability through rapid evolution and revolutionary transformations of its usage. The Consortium may be found at http://www.w3.org/.