Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, credited for inventing this little thing called the World Wide Web, has signed up for Twitter in a move that could potentially rip a hole in the time/space continuum.
The British computer scientist, engineer and MIT professor apparently got on Twitter yesterday just before he entered into a conversation with Tim O’Reilly on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit.
The man uses Tweetie and thinks either the app or the Twitter website has a confusing user interface. Since Berners-Lee is also the Director of Web standards organization World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), that’s telling.
(Hat tip to Tom Raftery)
John “Tim” Berners-Lee was just lucky that his www help became so popular. After that, nothing more innovative was heard or seen.
(Sure, I wish I had such a one hit wonder… but still, I think twitters hired them because of his name – not brain.)
Without this “One-Hit-Wonder” you nor I would be commenting on this article, because there wouldn’t be a techcrunch.
Hogwash.
Seriously.
count yourself lucky if you become a 0.01 time hit wonder.
“Name not brain” Seriously?! WTF!? The dude is an MIT professor, director of WWW Consortium among other things worked for CERN during his development of the Internet…
+1
I agree, totally retarded statement. Tim and friends are defining the future of the Web everyday!
Seriously, get a life.
Man, your so right. The Semantic Web isnt innovative in the slightest. The W3C isnt innovative either.
Unless my humour is another thing to fly way over your head – I was being sarcastic.
If you came into my house and said those things about my man Tim, I’d say “NO – YOU CANNOT COME INTO MY HOUSE AND SAY THOSE THINGS ABOUT TIM – GET OUT.”
Damn Soupie.
Yeah. And “Hey, Jude” was a one-hit wonder.
As was “Stairway to Heaven”.
And “Purple Haze”.
And….
You. SIR. are an EEE.diot!
1. count your blessings &
2. create your own moment of luck.
3. try to understand when you attack a great man Like Tim it feels like you have a problem.
It’s called envy.
for the last 30 years of his life, Einstein did not generate a lot. He did not believe in quantum mechanics (Schrodinger actually called him a fool).
Once you create a pivotal work like this, then go to create another one, then please come and comment.
I guess it’s easy to produce seminal works on the field of stupidity, so you probably are not a 1 time hitter.
How is signing up for Twitter any significance at all?
We can call it “Full Circle” if Tim decides to go work for the New York Times.
What I want to know is what happened to Eric Bina? Talk about unsung heroes.
This sounds a big news for Twitter…
n i too as a user agree that twitter’s interface is a bit confusing especially for the late comers.
when i read the headline i thought you meant he was joining the twitter executive team or something. hah!
Yes, I realize it might have been a tad confusing, updated title.
… “Registers” with Twitter would’ve been more appropriate for the title.
Subtle differences between Belgian and American English…
Well the impact of twitter would be much more lethal, facebook has too lookout now
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OMG what does this means.
nothing…
To answer other questions Tim is primarily a scientist and professor not a businessman/ entrepreneur. Which is good as impartiality is important for the W3C to be successful. And some would say that W3C is more important than even Facebook or Twitter! Could this be true??
He was on identi.ca first, strangely → identi.ca/timbl
hilarious. he “invented” the web. i expect such mindless parroting of cw from better homes and gardens but not techcrunch. for all the web depends upon, from IP, TCP, web browser, web server, backend hardware infrastructure, that a man develops a modest improvement to SGML and gets credit for ‘inventing’ the web, is a bit ridiculous.
He took the pieces and put them together in a way that worked. When you go to the browser and begin with the letters http, that is because of him. Read the page on World Wide Web at Wikipedia.
Internet != World wide web
Isaac Newton discovered gravity and Tim BL ‘discovered’ the web. Considering it was an evolution of previous Internet theory, yes, he stood on the shoulder of giants and, yes, therefore he took the credit for putting it all together. Yes. And so did Newton. That’s what scientists do and every so often one of them goes down in history for putting it all together.
He created a surprisingly robust solution and then took what was a very fragile early creation through some very seminal evolutions, setting up the W3C to make the web what it is today, all the while avoiding the advances of big business and corporates who wanted to monopolise it. In doing so he’s kept the web open, distributed and neutral.
Think about why he didn’t patent the whole lot and license it back to you. His life’s work has largely been a selfless attempt to change to the world by creating a platform for others to exploit.
It stands to reason that Tim is credited with the invention of the web. That was the eureka moment but the real credit is for what he did with it and where he and the world is now because of it.
Internet = Platform/Collection of infrastructure
WWW = Publishing/App Framework running on top of Internet
He is the creator of the framework which did not exist before. eMail is not part of the WWW for example, but runs in parallel to WWW and shares the platform with it.
If I created the world wide web I think I’d want a better computer monitor than that.
awesome.
Tim has been on Identi.ca for a long time because they publish RDF feeds of messaging streams…and the Semantic Web is something that Tim also pioneers through W3C. Twitter goes against what Tim stands for: an open *decentralised* web for all.
Source: I do some editing in W3C and had lunch with him in Boston a few months back
if the internet had natural language location based standards in the beginning we would not have 100 million domain names registered, 99% of which are garbage. if the founders of the internet had focused on “Location” instead of “Search” , the internet would be a much better place today. tim appears to finally be getting it in this video if you advance it to 6:00. http://www.ted....lks/view/id/484
The inventor of the internet though, Leonard Kleinrock, has had a twitter account for some months now, though he has yet to tweet. http://twitter.com/kleinrock
nice to see his follower counter increasing
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Wow this guy created the web and his monitor his from the early 90’s. Maybe it keeps him humble.
That or it’s an old pic.
Is it me, or is the Twitter image copied and pasted over his 1991 monitor? If so, that’s some sloppy/cheap Photoshopping.
well, you can see 2/3rds of a NeXT workstation UI on the screen
so yeah, it’s “horribly” photoshop on purpose (its called humour)
There are people who do things out of solid reasons, and not with a herd-mentality. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s joining Twitter is certainly a news, and yet another indication as to how important social media has become.
Actually, he uses decentralized identi.ca which mirrors his dents to twitter, this is the original identi.ca account he actually uses: http://identi.ca/timbl
If you check his tweets, they’re all “from identi.ca” http://twitter....atus/5097026255 except for the first ones.
This is quite interesting. I like it.
Does he use a mac or a PC?
Who is this guy, and what has he done to Al Gore ?!?!
Welcome Tim.
So when is he going to hit the Twitter Suggested List? His friend did Tim’O
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