The Inventor of the WWW Is Finally Blogging! (Link)

"I am going to try this blog thing using blog tools. So this is for all the people who have been saying I ought to have a blog.", said Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web!

Tim did not expect his first blog to be overwhelmed with 455 comments in only one week period. He then decided to turn the comments off on his first blog. He then added:

"I can't answer them all, but I would point out one thing. I just played my part. I built on the work of others -- the Internet, invented 20 years before the web, by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn and colleagues, for example, and hypertext, a word coined by Ted Nelson for an idea of links which was already implemented in many non-networked systems. I just put these technologies together. And then, it all took off because of this amazing community of enthusiasts, who have done such incredible things with the technology, and are still advancing it in so many ways."

In his first blog, Tim said: "In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights ... Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space".

The first Web site Berners-Lee built (and therefore the first Web site) was at http://info.cern.ch/ (which has been archived) and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser, how to set up a Web server, and so on. It was also the world's first Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own.

Read Also:
Tim Berners-Lee (W3.org)
Tim Berners-Lee (Wikipedia)