Tim Berners-Lee on the Web

notmyopinion writes "In a wide-ranging interview with the British Computer Society, Sir Tim Berners-Lee criticizes software patents, speaks out on US and ICANN control of the Internet, proposes browser security changes, and says he got domain names backwards in web addresses all those years ago."

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A true Brit.

[jd]

JANET (the Joint Academic Network) used to use X.25, which used reverse domain names, if I recall correctly. It also used HORRIBLE addressing notation. Essex University's DEC 10 (which ran the first ever massively multi-user adventure game, or rather three of them) had an address of A2206411411. (Yes, I really do remember that.)

So the idea that he started off having trouble with the Berkeley naming convention doesn't surprise me at all.

(I'd prefer a more heirarchical system, myself, where an organization can ONLY have one domain name and have all their actual addresses inside of that. It would make the namespace a lot less cluttered and would reduce trademark abuses. On the other hand, names would be a lot longer. However, if you're using a search engine, a portal or bookmarks most of the time anyway, that's no big deal.)