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Berners-Lee Claims Web "Still In Infancy"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gimme-my-milk-beotch dept.

eldavojohn writes "The man credited with inventing the Web at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, has made a statement on the 15th anniversary of the Web's initial code release that the Web is still in its infancy. He also made a pretty insightful comment about CERN's releasing of the code for the Web into public domain: 'If we had put a price on it like the University of Minnesota had done with Gopher then it would not have expanded into what it is now. We would have had some sort of market share alongside services like AOL and Compuserve, but we would not have flattened the world.'"

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  1. Who? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tim Berners-Lee? Never heard of him. Everyone knows that Algore invented the Internet.

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    1. Re:Who? by Telvin_3d · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sometimes the line between telling a joke and being a twat gets crossed. This is one of those times. It wasn't funny. It wasn't funny when the meme first appeared. The poster might have thought it was funny. He is now being told otherwise. Perhaps with work and practice and further negative feedback someday he may actually be funny. That day is not now.

  2. The infancy analogy is apropos... by sinator · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all, we're in the terrible 2.0's right now.

    Someone change the diaper, there's twitter all over the place.

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  3. Re:A couple of things... by sm62704 · · Score: 2, Funny

    (capital 'i' please)

    Why? "Internet" is not a proper name, like George or Indiana. It's a common noun, a thing, like "television" or "microwave oven" or "pencil".

    "Ms. Pedant, may we sharpen our Pencils, please?"

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