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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. Blog runs Drupal by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Informative

    Interestingly, Tim Berners-Lee uses Drupal to run his blog.

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  4. Thus MySpace? by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Thus MySpace? by Malangali · · Score: 5, Interesting
      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?

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  5. Re:Editing pages? by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are they hacks? GET is for retrieving a resource from the server, PUT is for putting a resource on the server, and POST is for sending information to a resource on the server. In what way are they not "proper"?

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  6. 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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  7. 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