Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

The Web is a huge world.

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

The Internet is an amazing development.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

The Internet is amazing.

Can you explain what Internet is?

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

I like Google.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Cyberspace

The World Wide Web is more a social creation than a technical one.

With the Internet, you hear voices that you never knew were out there.

Commerce has not delivered us out of history’s passions, the World Wide Web has not cast aside blood and kin and faith.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

I don't understand the interweb.