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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."
It's about time he got on the web. I mean, it's like 15 years old. Everyone is on it these days.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee ... says he got domain names backwards in web addresses all those years ago.
But how could you make an advertising jingle out of
"com dot expediAAAAAAHHH!"
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Be nice; he invented the medium you're using to flame him... ;)
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
Unlike some people, Sir Tim Berners-Lee actually achieved something (you know that thing they call the World Wide Web) that paved the way for him to be knighted by the Queen. Think of that the next time someone says "Yes, sir" to a manager.
In fact, every machine on the internet could be given a unique 32 bit number. Then you could connect to it using that number as the name. That would be awesome!
Left or right isn't the problem; the problem with URLs is that they're inconsistent. Reading from left to right, the hostname goes from most specific to most general, while the rest of the path is just the opposite.