20 years ago on 13 March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee authored ‘Information Management: A proposal’, the paper which sparked the technology that was to become the World Wide Web that we know and love today and part of our everyday Life. Now we have the 20th birthday from the day in which Tim Berners-Lee put forward the idea which eventually evolved into the Web. In 1989, Berners-Lee was a software consultant working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside of Geneva, Switzerland. On March 13 of that year, he submitted a plan to management on how to better monitor the flow of research at the labs. People were coming and going at such a clip that an increasingly frustrated Berners-Lee complained that CERN was losing track of valuable project information because of the rapid turnover of personnel. It did not help matters that the place was chockablock with incompatible computers people brought with them to the office.
To commemorate the anniversary, Berners-Lee spoke about the Web and where he sees it heading in the future. He told the BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones: The web is not all done, it’s just the tip of the iceberg… I’m convinced that the new changes are going to rock the world even more. It’s amazing to think that the Web has grown from such humble beginnings to become the technological marvel it is today. Many people’s lives would be very different if Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and the other innovators who created the Web hadn’t had such foresight all those years ago.
Tim Berner Lee about Commercial use of Web:
As the world wide web celebrates its 20th birthday, claims have been made that the integrity of the internet is at stake. Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has claimed that without proper care being taken over the privacy of individual's information online, the UK could be at risk from organisations who could gain access to records showing internet users' browsing habits. Berners-Lee warned against the collection of users' data by commercial organisations and said that third parties, including companies and governments, should not be allowed to snoop on the public's browsing of the internet. He said: “We use the internet without a thought that a third party would know what we have clicked on. But the URLs/people use reveal a huge amount about their lives, loves, hates and fears. This is extremely sensitive information. “People use the web in a crisis, when wondering whether they have a sexually transmitted disease, or cancer, when wondering if they are homosexual and whether to talk about it. This information is very sensitive. I feel it should not be collected.”
Its all about the man with a vision, whose three word "www" change the life style of people forever.
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