Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT’s CSAIL, and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS. Maybe the name isn’t very familiar for some of you, but you should be familiar with the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the organization behind allmost all web standards such HTML, XML, CSS …
In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.
From 1989 to 2005, almost 16 years and since the first browser until the current browsers lot of development have been done in the world. A big thanks for the W3 for all the work they provided to make the web standards and all researchers and scientifics who make a dream come true.
It was interesting to hear the opinion of the director of the W3C, today that blogs become more popular than everything
Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space. In the mean time, I have had the luxury of having a web site which I have write access, and I’ve used tools like Amaya and Nvu which allow direct editing of web pages. With these, I haven’t felt the urge to blog with blogging tools. Effectively my blog has been the Design Issues series of technical articles.
Tim now have a blog, The first post last monday and already 380+ comments and its increasing every second. I guess when I finish posting this it will be 400+. Anyway Welcome Tim to the blogosphere and hope we’ll hear more interesting opinions from the W3C director.
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