Linux Professional Institute<p>On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss at CERN. “Vague but exciting” was his feedback. The project later became the World Wide Web.</p><p>Thank you, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for changing the world!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TimBL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LPI</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CERN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CERN</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/worldwideweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>worldwideweb</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IT</span></a></p>
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100% TAX ✅ ✅<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mamund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mamund</span></a></span> </p><p>Tim's on the fediverse!</p><p>timbl@w3c.social</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimBernersLee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBernersLee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a></p>
100% TAX ✅ ✅<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@wisdom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wisdom</span></a></span> </p><p>WikiQuote got another quote. Couldn't find your quote there but if you want you can add it! Please also add a source...</p><p>"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards."</p><p>Tim's on Mastodon!</p><p>timbl@w3c.social</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a></p>
:mastodon: Mike Amundsen<p>35 years after first proposing the World Wide Web, what does its creator Tim Berners-Lee have in mind next?</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/technology/com</span><span class="invisible">munications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt</span></a></p><p>"After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again." -- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimDanton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimDanton</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/timbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timbl</span></a></p>
Denny Vrandečić<p>I want to believe that Solid is the next important step, but Leigh Dodds's recent post on Solid, and particularly the discussion in the post, didn't inspire hope.</p><p><a href="https://blog.ldodds.com/2024/03/12/baffled-by-solid/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ldodds.com/2024/03/12/baf</span><span class="invisible">fled-by-solid/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> </p><p>5/5</p>
Denny Vrandečić<p>Celebrating the 35th birthday of the World Wide Web, a letter by its founder, Tim Berners-Lee.</p><p>Discussing some of the issues of the Web of today: too much centralization, too much exploitation, too much disinformation, all made even more dire by the development of AI.</p><p><a href="https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">webfoundation.org/2024/03/mark</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TimBl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBl</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> </p><p>1/5</p>
Angelo Veltens<p>Tim Berners-Lee about the beginning of the <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a>, the current work on Web 3.0 aka <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/Solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solid</span></a> (not the blockchain fraud) and his view on <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> and <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DvBPnNigM&t=1653" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=N_DvBPnNig</span><span class="invisible">M&t=1653</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a></p>
Coralie Mercier (W3C)<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/2771" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/2771</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>“Girls go to… Mercury…To…Meet Tim Berners-Lee” 😃 </p><p><a href="https://w3c.social/tags/xkcd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xkcd</span></a> <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/timbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timbl</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sfba.social/@peterme" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peterme</span></a></span> Not true unless you mean the first to display graphics inline on the page. <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a>’s original WorldWideWeb on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> was a GUI browser *and* editor, and Mosaic was preceding by Erwise and ViolaWWW.</p><p>Along with graphics on the page, the Mosaic team also quickly released Microsoft <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> ports. That’s why it was the first *popular* graphical browser.</p>
Angelo Veltens<p>Interesting thoughts by Tim Berners-Lee about what things to store in a Pod and how to organize them. <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/timbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timbl</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/solidproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidproject</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/personaldata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personaldata</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/socialweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialweb</span></a></p><p>Stuff in your Pod - Design Issues<br><a href="https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/PodStuff.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">w3.org/DesignIssues/PodStuff.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p>
Angelo Veltens<p>"Berners-Lee ist auch dafür, Datensilos zu öffnen. Der Direktor des World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) setzt dafür aber auf sein eigenes dezentrales Webprojekt Solid. Nutzer sollen mit der Open-Source-Initiative befähigt werden, in jedem Fall selbst zu bestimmen, wo ihre persönlichen Informationen gespeichert werden. Im Idealfall handelt es sich dabei um einen eigenen "Solid-Datenpod", über den der Inhaber die volle Kontrolle hat"</p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Tim-Berners-Lee-vs-Blockchain-Web3-hat-nichts-mit-dem-Web-zu-tun-7331409.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/news/Tim-Berners-Lee-</span><span class="invisible">vs-Blockchain-Web3-hat-nichts-mit-dem-Web-zu-tun-7331409.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web3</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/timbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timbl</span></a></p>
Coralie Mercier<p>Today 31 years ago, August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted to a newsgroup the summary of the "World Wide Web" ♥️</p><p>“The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.”</p><p>“Try it,” he wrote, and gave the first URI to a web page.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/timbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timbl</span></a></p><p><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/comp.archives/c/CfsHlSNYPUI/m/DTs60INnuzcJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">groups.google.com/g/comp.archi</span><span class="invisible">ves/c/CfsHlSNYPUI/m/DTs60INnuzcJ</span></a></p>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)...Remember that even the founder of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/www" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#www</a> - 'sir' <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> - recognised that what he started in CERN went the wrong way. He's sort of trying to correct it, but it's going nowhere so far.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)<a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/w3c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#W3C</a> is obsolete like <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/iso" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ISO</a><br><br>Look at the WGs and panels/members<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/apple" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/microsoft" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/ibm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ibm</a> etc.<br><br>Rename W3C G[I]AGAM<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> totally lost control of it!<br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1252529704604782592" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1252529704604782592</a>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)● NEWS ● <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/www" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#www</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/internet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> ☞ He invented the web. Now he's warning of a looming 'digital dystopia' <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/25/tech/berners-lee-web-safer-plan-scli-intl/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/25/tech/berners-lee-web-safer-plan-scli-intl/index.html</a>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Tembel <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> has since then brought the chaos which is <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/drm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drm</a> (EME) to the <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/www" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#www</a> <br><br><a href="https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/03/how-the-chaos-of-studying-subatomic-particles-inspired-the-creation-of-the-web/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/03/how-the-chaos-of-studying-subatomic-particles-inspired-the-creation-of-the-web/</a><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/web30" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web30</a>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)The web we broke. <a href="https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/web30" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web30</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/w3c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#w3c</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/www" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#www</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/internet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)<a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> is himself attacking the Web. This Tembel put <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/drm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drm</a> (EME) in it. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/03/12/find-sir-tims-relentless-attacks-web-frustrating/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/03/12/find-sir-tims-relentless-attacks-web-frustrating/</a><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/telegraph" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telegraph</a> paywall
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)And @timberners_lee also pushed <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/drm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drm</a> into the <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/www" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#www</a> (EME). <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/web30" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web30</a> is a sad story. <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/tembel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tembel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1105770274480369665" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1105770274480369665</a>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)But tembel, how can you control your data with <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/drm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drm</a> (EME)? <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/timbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timbl</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/web30" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web30</a> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/web-turns-30-pioneer-tim-berners-lee-says-you-should-have-complete-control-your-data" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/web-turns-30-pioneer-tim-berners-lee-says-you-should-have-complete-control-your-data</a>
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