The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
Tim Berners-LeeCompared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
Tim Berners-LeeWeb applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.
Tim Berners-LeeThat idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
Tim Berners-LeeIf you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.
Tim Berners-LeeThe Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.
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