Computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web
We retrieved 3 posts and 72 comments from u/timbl, dated 2013 to 2024, most often in r/IAmA and r/sonos.
On “I am Tim Berners-Lee. I invented the WWW 25 years ago and I am concerned and excited about its future. AMA”
Tim, What other names did you consider other than the world wide web?
Mine of Information, The Information Mine, The Mesh
None had quite the right ring. I liked WWW partly because I could start global variable names with a W and not have them clash with other peoples' (in a C world) ...in fact I used HT for them)
On “I am Tim Berners-Lee. I invented the WWW 25 years ago and I am concerned and excited about its future. AMA”
what was your first computer?
On “I am Tim Berners-Lee. I invented the WWW 25 years ago and I am concerned and excited about its future. AMA”
Have you learned to spell referrer yet ?
No, my speling is still terible. Hopefully not to much or it will get into header field names without some review at this stage!
On “I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA!”
Do you remember your first thoughts, or words, when you achieved the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server?
Nope. I was head down getting stuff working.... the server and client were both on my machine at that stage... I wasn't using source code control, so I could nto go back and find the critical commit with the "hmm GET seems to work" comment :-)