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I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.
[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.
IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.
The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.
It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.
When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.
Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.