Tag: Tim Berners Lee

Lost, not yet found – the first web page [Article]

NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel is surprised that while you can find a lot of things online, there’s one important piece of the Web’s own history that can’t be found through a search engine: the very first Web page is lost.

An old optical disk drive was lost at a conference in California. On it is one of the very first iterations of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Web page from 1990. “It was such a beautiful object, that optical disk, that someone maybe has it on their coffee table or their bookshelf, and if we could find that, that’d be great,” he says.

Tim-Berners Lee in Sydney [Article]

The father of the internet, Sir Tim-Berners Lee was in Australia & New Zealand & cautions that what our politicians have in the pipeline as data-retention law is so dangerous it is dynamite. This follows several leaders in the industry who have been voicing their opinion that governments around the world are disregarding the very principles of democracy that they want the rest of world to espouse.