#tim berners-lee

[midnightfunk]

Inventor of the world wide web wants us to reclaim our data from tech giants | CNN Business

The internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1989. Now, with his startup Inrupt, he believes it's ti

[teachersource]

Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955. Also known as TimBL, he is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on March 12, 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November. He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Father of World Wide Web Launches Radical Startup to Take Back the Internet from Google & Facebook

A revolutionary startup was recently announced by the "father of the world wide web" which plans to radically decentralize the internet to give it back to the people.

Tim Berners-Lee end the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Amazon, while in the process letting individuals take back control of their own data! ✊ #FlashbackFiles

[gregorygalloway]

Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955)

[intelligentliving]

Global Plan To Save The Web Backed By Over 150 Major Companies

The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, says there's a lot of things that will go wrong if we leave the internet as it is, so he's trying to save the web.

[ml-pnp]

Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Teams Up with Facebook, Google, to 'Fix The Web' | Breitbart

Sir. Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, has teamed up with censorship-prone tech giants Facebook and Google to launch the "Contract for the Web," a set of principles aimed to "fix" the Internet and prevent "digital dystopia."

wasn’t this an episode of Silicon Valley

[maaarine]

MBTI & Celebs Tim Berners-Lee: INTP

“Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. 

He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He made a proposal for an information management system on March 12, 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in mid-November the same year.”

Sources: video, wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

[pointless-letters]

“Thanks a bunch, BERNERS-Lee!”

(many thanks to peteaylward over on Twitter for this one!)