BBC Interviews the creator of the Web

BBC Interviews the creator of the Web

BBC interviews Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the visionary English man who in August of 1991, at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics or Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) created the first website and launched this extraordinary revolution called the WWW. It is amazing to think that this event took place only 14 years ago this month. The interview is full of candid, interesting, and profound insights from the creator of the Web: the quality and reliability of the information, the invasion of privacy, morality, etc. One fact, however, attracted my attention in particular: Berners-Lee states that nowadays the WWW is closer to the original idea of his invention. He wanted to create a place (a space for anybody) where people can write and read, a place where people can communicate easily and frequently (this is besides the fact that the web will become the greatest depository of knowledge, with time).

During the first years of the web this task was difficult because editing pages for the web was something reserved for a small tech saavy bunch. Hypertext is not user friendly. Text is user friendly. If you could simply write using normal text, and send your ideas to the web without any complications, this is progress! This is precisely what we have now with the thousand of blogs (and wikis) available. Blogging is a simple task that anybody can perform: sit in front of a computer and type your ideas using simple text. Click a couple of buttons, and that's it! You become part of a huge community; you submit your ideas in your own creative space.

According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, blogging is making the web closer to his original conception of a read/write web. What do you think? Read here the whole interview:

BBC Interview