A story about Tim Berners-Lee
I first met at the first WWW conference, held at CER, Geneva in 1994. I was putting up some posters, embarrasingly entitled “Mosaic and the WWW” – back then I placed too much emphaiss on the browser application.
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Sir Timothy “Tim” John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL) (born June 8, 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium. He has a blog.
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A story about Tim Berners-Lee
He gave a conference when I was working at University of Edinburgh (2006) and I simply signed in for the evening dinner. Excellent conference and exquisite dinner. It felt a bit like meeting our “creator”.
A story about Tim Berners-Lee
sometimes when you meet a famous dude you walk away saying “he got lucky” but after meeting tim you walk away and say “he is a smart mf”
Why I admire Tim Berners-Lee
As an early pioneer of the Web, I had long understood Tim’s godly stature and role in its creation. I have been a netizen since 1994…thanks, in large part, to his work.
Why I want to meet Tim Berners-Lee
He invented HTTP and HTML that are the technologies on which the World Wide Web is built. This in itself is remarkable. But more remarkable is that, in true scientist fashion, he shared it with his peers and gave it to the rest of us. So at the very least I want to be able to say thank you to him.
How I met Tim Berners-Lee
Met him at the W3C conference back in 1999. Wonderful guy, very down to earth.
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