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Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in mid-November the same year.

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Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

Applications, Doors, Giving, Human, Ubiquitous, Wall

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Get Involved, People, Things, Think, Thinking

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Activity, Amount, Ifs, Internet, Somebody

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.

Page, Pages, People, Used, Web

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Creative, Imagination, Limits, Web

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Clients, Fix, Responsibility, Security, Software, Technology

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.

Existence, Goal, Improve, Support, Weblike, World

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Creative, Doe, Hacker, Things, Wonderful

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

Blame, Make, Mistake, Mistakes, Technology

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Developed, Development, Phones, Tvs, Web

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.

Able, Allocate, Duty, Stand, Uris, Years

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.

Human, Legwork, Mazes, Mind, Minds, Would Be

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.

People, Social, Toy, Toys, Work, Working Together

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Internet, Readership, Universal, Concept, Web

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.

Groups, Incredible, Joining, People

Things can change so fast on the internet.

Change, Fast, Internet, Things

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

Change, Machinery, Marketing, Use

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet. . . obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

Innovation, Internet, Run, Running, Whole, Writing

Celebrity damages private life.

Celebrity, Damage, Damages, Life, Private, Private Life

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.

1993, Clear, Growth, Technology, Thinking, Time

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