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.'"

Comments

Re:Thus MySpace?

[Neoprofin]

Truly the creativity he invisioned has been wasted on finding new and bizarre fetish porn or downloading the new 50 cent album? That's the tragedy of life I guess.

While that may be the case one cannot dispute the postive impact that the WWW has had on exposing people to others viewpoints and giving even the most awkward of fringe views a home to be expressed.

Re:Editing pages?

[mill]

In what way are GET and PUT horrible hacks?

Dave Winer and People's memory

[shareme]

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??

Re:Thus MySpace?

[Malangali]

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.

Henry Ford probably never envisioned Hummers driving over curbs to get to the best parking spaces at the mall.

The Wright brothers probably never envisioned people flying massive airplanes into buildings as weapons.

The inventors of the television probably never envisioned "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire."

Thomas Edison, when he invented the phonograph, most certainly did not imagine gangsta rap.

Inventions happen, but what happens when they are released into the wild is not in the hands of the inventor. And really, why should it matter what the inventor was thinking of when s/he first developed the innovation?

HTML WYSIWYG editing?

[TeknoHog]

From TFA:

Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn't demand a what you see is what you get editor.

I thought the idea of WYSIWYG goes completely against HTML's separation of content from presentation. I can't imagine why TBL would say something like this, perhaps his meaning of WYSIWYG is different from mine?