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Tim Berners-Lee Enters Blogosphere

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the has-nice-things-to-say-about-it dept.

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.'"

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  1. A plague! by aarku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woe onto the editor who posts a story with the word "blogosphere" in the headline.

  2. In related news by Demona · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tim Berners-Lee disables blog comments.

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  3. Oh great another blog "news" story geez by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  4. So... by bunnyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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