Berners-Lee Launches New W3 Foundation

robertsonadams tips us to the initiation of the World Wide Web Foundation with $5M of seed funding from the Knight Foundation. From the announcement: "Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, unveils the World Wide Web Foundation. It aims to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand its capability and robustness, and to extend its benefits to all people on the planet." The new foundation's site should have video up soon of Berners-Lee's speech at the kickoff event. The foundation hopes to raise $50M–$100M and will issue grants in Web science, technology and practice, and Web for society. Initial plans will be disclosed early next year.

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Quick!

[BitterOldGUy]

Let's find all the jokes that have been posted about the Web being forked and post, "See! We told you so! Funny mod my ass!"

Re:Quick!

[amdpox]

Funny mod parent's ass!

"One Web that is free and open"

[gogita21]

One Web to rule them all...

Re:"One Web that is free and open"

[rk87]

Bastard, ya beat me to it!

Three Interwebs for the AT&T-kings under Bell Labs,
Seven for the GNU-lords in their halls of source,
Nine for Mortal n00bs doomed to pwnage,
One for the Borg on his dark throne
In the Land of Internet where the /b/tards lie.
One Web to connect() them all, One Web to gethostbyname() them,
One Web to bring them all and in the darkness bind() them
In the Land of Internet where the /b/tards lie.

Re:Is this news?

[linhares]

The news is that this dude says he did the www, not Al Gore.

World Wide Web Foundation

[tripmine]

W3F?!?!?

Knight Foundation - here comes Knight Rider

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, Knight Foundation is footing the bill, I am sure we will see Michael, and Kit running the show...seriously having Kit run the web would be awesome....knight rider rules

Re:pr0n driving the web forward

[Joebert]

From now on, every time you're whackin it to some porn on the Internet, right before you ruin your tube sock, you're going to remember one thing, somewhere in the world, at that very moment, there's another dude whackin it to the same free porn. And guess what, he read this and is thinking about you too.

Re:Maybe he's onto something here

[Anonymous Coward]

The "ready in 2022" for HTML5 is not the date for HTML5 spec completion, it's the date of when it'll be supported in Internet Explorer.

Funding from the Knight Foundation?

[emag]

Does this mean the W3F will be releasing a Web KITT?

"Inventor" should be quoted

[mi]

"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

This claim of "inventing" the WWW is rather dubious and is perpetuated mostly by those anti-Americans, who would like to diminish America's contribution to the Internet (wonder of the world).

What Tim wrote at CERN was more like a Wiki — a hyper-text interface to a single database. He invented neither the hyper-text itself, nor the database, of course. He did work on Mosaic, but was neither the only nor the main person there — and the project was funded by NCSA (an American organization).

His contribution was, no doubt, huge, but the inventor he was not — considering the existence of all the prior works, including Gopher, there was nothing in his work, that was not "obvious to someone skilled in the art".

If anyone tried to sue for licensing fees based on this sort of claims of inventorship, we would've been awash in fury...