Opinion of Tim Berners-Lee

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A refreshing contrast to the likes of Zuckerberg.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Timmy's Dad: What did you invent?
Timmy: Internet!
Cosmo: That's a bad name. I would name it the Timmy!

[Lyin' Steve]

Is he in the news or something?  Last I checked he retired twenty years ago and spent his time since then tinkering with new formats and definition languages or writing letters to the editors of standards committee journals.

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Is he in the news or something?  Last I checked he retired twenty years ago and spent his time since then tinkering with new formats and definition languages or writing letters to the editors of standards committee journals.

It was upon seeing to the recent poll featuring internet billionaires like Bezos, Page, Brin etc and realising that the most important figure of the Web never sacrificed the principle of the creation for profit.

[Antonio the Sixth]

FF, I guess.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Is he in the news or something?  Last I checked he retired twenty years ago and spent his time since then tinkering with new formats and definition languages or writing letters to the editors of standards committee journals.

It was upon seeing to the recent poll featuring internet billionaires like Bezos, Page, Brin etc and realising that the most important figure of the Web never sacrificed the principle of the creation for profit.

Actually, the fact that the HTML "standard" was publicly available was essential to its adoption.  There were already existing proprietary standards available to create document webs.  But precisely because they were proprietary, they failed to catch on.  If CERN or Berners-Lee had tried to cash in on HTML, they'd never have seen the level of adoption needed to make it viable financially.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Helped create the Internet = HP.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Helped create the Internet = HP.

As someone who used the internet back before the web even existed, that's not quite true.

Besides, without Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina to make Berners-Lee's web generally accessible and usable by the average person, the web never would have exploded the way it did.