Monday, April 10, 2006
breadcrumbs
He is the creator of the World Wide Web, and he too is taken aback by the way it has developed. The web has now become a publishing medium, and the creator thinks that he too should join the pack. So finally, on the 15 th anniversary of his creation, the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog of his own.
In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that thershould be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute, he says.
``Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline''. And in 2005, with blogs and wikis running riot, Lee remarks, ``the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space''. His blog prompted many a reactions, with people asking him whether he had envisaged the course that the web has adopted.
Someone teasingly asks, ``Now let's see how you'll interact with all the junk coming from social blogs, social networks, social software''. Another quips, ``With YOUR WWW we have got messengers, Internet games,webmails, free videos, P2P and wiki(pedias or not) and now blogs and IPPhones''.
The first web browser - or browser-editor rather - was called WorldWideWeb which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights. Then came the trend of editing offline and later uploading the stuff on the net. There were others at mit, where his blog is hosted, who thought that they would not be able to cope with Tim's blog.
``First, is our machine ready to handle the load of a bunch of blogs and technorati and Slashdot and digg and everybody else linking to him all at once?'', asked one. But Tim began his lates sujourn very simply, ``So I have a blog'', he said. It is called ``timbl's blog'' and can be accessed at http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 , wherit goes under the name of breadcrumbs.
By the time, this column was written, over 450 comments had been posted and an fair number of other blogs were abuzz about timbl's. Berners-Lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research. He never got the project formally approved, but quietly tinkered with it anyway, making the first browser available at CERN by Christmas Day 1990.
In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that thershould be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute, he says.
``Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline''. And in 2005, with blogs and wikis running riot, Lee remarks, ``the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space''. His blog prompted many a reactions, with people asking him whether he had envisaged the course that the web has adopted.
Someone teasingly asks, ``Now let's see how you'll interact with all the junk coming from social blogs, social networks, social software''. Another quips, ``With YOUR WWW we have got messengers, Internet games,webmails, free videos, P2P and wiki(pedias or not) and now blogs and IPPhones''.
The first web browser - or browser-editor rather - was called WorldWideWeb which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights. Then came the trend of editing offline and later uploading the stuff on the net. There were others at mit, where his blog is hosted, who thought that they would not be able to cope with Tim's blog.
``First, is our machine ready to handle the load of a bunch of blogs and technorati and Slashdot and digg and everybody else linking to him all at once?'', asked one. But Tim began his lates sujourn very simply, ``So I have a blog'', he said. It is called ``timbl's blog'' and can be accessed at http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 , wherit goes under the name of breadcrumbs.
By the time, this column was written, over 450 comments had been posted and an fair number of other blogs were abuzz about timbl's. Berners-Lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research. He never got the project formally approved, but quietly tinkered with it anyway, making the first browser available at CERN by Christmas Day 1990.
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