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Tim Berners-Lee Enters Blogosphere
Saiyine writes "Sir Timothy 'Tim' John Berners-Lee has entered the world of blogging. From his first post: '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 ... 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.'"
Woe onto the editor who posts a story with the word "blogosphere" in the headline.
I for one, welcome our new Blogging Lord
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Tim Berners-Lee disables blog comments.
Fuck Slashdot
So why doesn't http provide a proper way to transfer information from client to server? The methods used (GET and PUT) are both horrible hacks.
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Did Tim have the whole world in mind back in 1989, or was he just trying to create a network for scientists and researchers such as himself? Surely, he couldn't have overlooked the ease of vandalism on the system he envisioned, but a community of scientists is much less likely to vandalize each other's work than the population at large. Wikis are very popular, but so is their vandalism. Heck, Slashdot just did a story about that today with Wikipedia.
Those who anthropomorphize science and/or nature already believe in an intelligent designer.
Interestingly, Tim Berners-Lee uses Drupal to run his blog.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
At a public library computer lab, the most common use of the machines is people gawking at other people's pictures on myspace. At any given time, this is about 70 percent of the usage.
Though I'm definitely thankful for this wonderful thing that Sir Tim envisioned, there's a part of me that suffers a bit. For every tool created, there are good uses and bad uses, and yeah I know I'm probably not fit to decide which category myspace belongs in...but I bet that what we most commonly use the web for nowadays is not what even Sir Tim had in mind.
People forget that when Dave Winer started his own scripting.com blog after writing for wired that he cedited the very first blog to Tim Berners-Lee To say eh entered blogs is in fact amiss statement..maybe the term re-=awakening should have been used??
Fred Grott(aka shareme) http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com
Please lavish your mod points on me.
STFU
Really. I'm sick of that joke.
What do I care who this "Berners-Lee" guy is anyway. Another useless nobody, why I bet that if I travel back in time and shoot him it will have absolutly no eff
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
The first ever webpage, Tim's homepage, was a blog.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Dropping the term "blogosphere" for a moment, we can see that the inventor of the World Wide Web has a blog, a "web log" if you will.
So the headline should be:
Inventor of WWW Uses His Own Invention
i doubt it .. he had a great idea for sure but the scope in his mind was no doubt limited to a few elite research establishments that were lucky enough to be connected via TCP .. To think that his vision was always that *the entire World* would one day be connected like this is a tad unbelievable if you ask me ...
The WWW is the product of many people that picked up on his half-baked idea and ran with it...
But don't get me wrong - kudos to TBL.
>The Wright brothers probably never envisioned people flying massive airplanes into buildings as weapons.
But some one asked one of the Wright brothers what aeroplanes would be useful for.
And he said "War."
No I don't have a reference.
my password really is 'stinkypants'
Here's Tim's brief list of his envisioned uses of the web, from 1990:
Here are some of the many areas in which hypertext is used. Each area has its specific requirements in the way of features required.
* General reference data - encyclopaedia, etc.
* Completely centralized publishing - online help, documentation, tutorial etc
* More or less centralized dissemination of news which has a limited life
* Collaborative authoring
* Collaborative design of something other than the hypertext itself
* Personal notebook
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Uses.html
The guy isn't an idiot. Apparently you haven't noticed that. He helped devise something that would have myriad uses, essentially limited only by the needs and imaginations of its users.
It's a MEDIUM.
For SHARING INFORMATION. And BEING CREATIVE. With MEANS for MOST ANYBODY to contribute and participate. And despite what you may tend to think, personal and interpersonal details (even on the level of gossip or the ravings of a hyper teenybopper) in fact qualify as information.
Care to explain how people using myspace makes you suffer? Maybe if they were wasting a limited resource like computer stations or bandwidth which you or someone else needed for a more urgent or immediate purpose, but it seems like you're simply ideologically opposed to people doing whatever they want.
Even today the web serves the same purposes that the guy laid out in 1990, just in much more fanciful ways, and more importantly on a web itself that is infinitely richer and wider.
...comes from "kid mercury," and what a gem it is:
"dude, www was a really good idea.
it's like the ultimate idea, man. i mean, i thought i had some good ideas, but www trumps everything. it's up there with like electricity. or music.
thanks for sharing."
Second place, from "Sean":
"You're the man now dog!"
Now, let's mull that one over for a second. When Sir Tim mentioned blogs and wikis as the primary examples of the wonderful user-created content that the Web is now overflowing with, didn't he leave something out? Thank you, Sean, for bringing this to our attention.
Call me when he enters the NEOblogosphere
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
Because he's too busy actually accomplishing something?
fuck you.
We're not. Aren;t you late for some digg trolls?
I am Spartacus
Anyone using the word "Blogosphere" should be executed publicly.
Are you volunteering to go first?
Tim Berners-Lee now using the read/write Web: Now that's what I call *dogfood*.
Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.
Eat my ass, dumbass
I don't think I'd be able to stop telling people what I'd done if I'd played such a major part in the development of the web as good old TBL.
You have a website? lovely, I invented those you know!
You're an internet millionaire? Fantastic! You'd be a nobody if it wasn't for me!
Dear amazon.com, send me free stuff. I invented the web.
I don't think I'd ever get tired of that.
To be filmed on campus at the leafy Oxford Uni. Rumour from the suburbs has it that Timbl tumbled from the thimble of tumbleweed, but did not inhale.
A beowulf cluster of Blogospheres.