Tag: TIMBERNERS-LEE

The man who invented the Internet seems pretty worried about the future of net neutrality. During a roundtable discussion in London yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee warned that a two-tiered Internet would threaten the openness upon which the Web has thrived. "Best practices should also include the neutrality of the net," he told a group of representatives from various content companies, including ...

In the 1960s, Vint Cerf and other researchers at DARPA created ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet (and the precursor to their insane penchant for acronyms). In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee gave birth to the World Wide Web. In 1998, ICANN was formed to govern and protect the Web. So in 2010, ICANN, realizing that the Internet was under constant threat from hackers, malware and rogue ...

As it's widely argued that the Internet has depersonalized and globalized human communication, it's easy to forget that the Web was invented by a person, and in a place. With that thought in mind, Web entrepreneur and Yelp co-founder David Galbraith decided to find out, once and for all, where and by whom the Internet was brought to life. Over the course of an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, who ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/double-slash-in-web-addresses-are-superfluous-says-internet-arc/'; As the old saying goes, hindsight is 20-20. That's the only explanation Sir Tim Berners-Lee offers for a mistake he made while designing the Internet. During an interview at a technology symposium in Washington Thursday, Berners-Lee said if he could go back and change one thing, he ...

Have you ever been taken-in by a scam or a fraudster online? Don't feel too bad about it, since apparently even Tim Berners-Lee, the man often credited as the inventor of the Internet, has fallen victim to online fraud. Sir Berners-Lee purchased a Christmas present online, but when the gift never arrived he realized he had been conned. He called the toll free number on the site, only to hear a ...

Al Gore may not agree, but this week marks the anniversary of the birth of the Web. 20 years ago, on March 13, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher for the European Organization for Nuclear Research lab outside of Geneva, Switzerland, proposed an idea to counter data-loss at CERN due to personnel turnover and incompatible computers. In the proposal, Berners-Lee described the predicament by stating, ...