March 31 2006 - Tim Berners-Lee gives a speech at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty important person when it comes to the 21st century. He pretty much invented the World Wide Web, and currently leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
He’s also a big proponent of linked data — a concept that he says differs somewhat from open data.
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The latest episode of Tech Weekly welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who helped launch the government’s new open data project, data.gov.uk. Charles Arthur, Bobbie Johnson and Aleks Krotoski discuss the implications and the future of this important and exciting new initiative.
Then Charles and Bobbie mutiny, turning the spotlight on Aleks, who presents Virtual Revolution, a major new BBC2 documentary series about the social history of the web starting this Saturday. Charles digs deeper into the making of the show, asking the series’ multiplatform producer Dan Gluckman why the BBC was so keen to make the development of the four films open and collaborative.
There’s wild speculation about the big announcement from Apple taking place this week, and more analysis of the escalating China-US internet freedom conflict.
An early interview with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web, early browsers (Mosaic on X, Cello, the line-mode browser) and how setting up a website is easy with httpd. Other gems include Tim describing annotation systems (sort of like delicious but available in 1993 - currently incarnated as Annotea), his description of how X Mosaic had ‘View Source’ and how this was a jolly good way of learning how to write HTML, and how "Universal Document Identifier" became "Uniform Resource Locator" (now, it has morphed into being "Uniform Resource Indicator", a superb Hegelian synthesis of both).
That said, not everything happened. Scalability and distribution aren’t that big of a problem, and certainly didn’t require the abuse of the Domain Name System (VeriSign’s SiteFinder debacle in 2003 where they started redirecting all unregistered .com and .net domains to a search engine without responding with the proper NXDOMAIN is a still vivid and painful memory for me - a small example of how making a small change can have enormous unintended consequences).