Dan Gillmor

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Aug 06 2011

Thank You, Tim Berners-Lee

Posted by Dan Gillmor in People, tags: Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web

Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted this announcement on Usenet (the main Internet forums of the day). The key line:

“The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere.”

Berners-Lee didn’t just give this to the world. He deliberately declined to patent this work, because he wanted wide adoption of his invention and believed in a culture of open, not closed.

We are all in his debt.

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