Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Tim Berners-Lee: "The Web is still in its infancy"

Read the article here. Looking over the state of current uses for the web in education and some of the stuff out there that might change this in the future such as social networking, mashups and the like I have to agree with the guy who basically invented the web.

One point I think deserves highlighting more: the web was invented back in the day of proprietary online services such as AOL and Compuserve. The Internet itself was the plaything of geeks at universities, with text-based services like email, USENET, Gopher and Archie. CERN gave away the early webserver code, and today the web is the internet as far as non-geeks are concerned. This wasn't an coincidence.

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