Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee and Information Ethics

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Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist and physicist known for inventing the World Wide Web, has also had one of the most successful individual impacts on the standards and ethics that govern the way the World Wide Web is operated today. Even though there were numerous opportunities for him to become rich from his own creation, Berners-Lee has consistently supported making the World Wide Web (WWW) accessible to everyone, with no single ownership or payments for its use. Berners-Lee is the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) whose mission statement is "To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web."[1]

Berners-Lee and the History of the World Wide Web

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In 1991, a few computer scientists released the World Wide Web (WWW) in a lab at CERN. Tim Berners-Lee co-created the World Wild Web (WWW) on a server-based computer by using the Internet (a medium for sending and receiving files, pictues, text, etc.). He joined multiple webpage together by using the first ever hypertext link. This made possible a “web” of created documents (made by using computer code, specifically HTML) to be edited and connected on a Internet Browser called MOSAIC. Once other computer scientists found out about Berners-Lee’s new invention, they started creating webpages on their own browser. (minnessota-ended up being software used at microsoft/netscape ) At first, the problem was that these browsers were not compatable.

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Berners-Lee Publications

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References

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