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6) Berners-Lee hopes (or worries) about the future of the WWW
The relatively free exchange of information across the WWW has become a fixture in our culture because of one man’s ingenious innovation and determinacy to ensure that it remain a medium for information for all people and for the common good. Tim Berners-Lee was searching for a way so that his research and the research of others at CERN could be connected and made universal for all. With this motivation, Berners-Lee thought of a system that would enable to link documents-through a process called “hypertext”-and computer networks. ... Through the protocol of the internet, hyperlinked documents were available and thus Berners-Lee gave birth to the WWW in 1991. ...
Berners-Lee created the program “Enquire” to be the mobility for a universal global networking system; the purpose ‘to keep track of the complex web of relationships between people, programs, machines and ideals’ (Erez, Berners W3C). ... Within the framework of the internet, Berners-Lee “took a powerful communications system that only the elite could use and turned it into a mass medium” (Quittner, Joshua TIMES).
Berners-Lee originally intended the Web to be a universal medium for sharing information, hence that it be based on the principle of universality, where “the idea that one information space could include them all” and where “the system should not constrain the user; a person should be able to link with equal ease to any document” (BL, 33). ...
We see how Berners-Lee recognized the potential of the WWW upon development and heeded his values and employed his view that the Web should remain universal and open to all people. One such example of how Berners-Lee succeeded by remaining faithful to his original convictions and intent for the WWW; to be a free resource, is with the failure of its competitor at the time, Gopher.
Approximate Word count = 1478
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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