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Linux Professional Institute<p>On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss at CERN. “Vague but exciting” was his feedback. The project later became the World Wide Web.</p><p>Thank you, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for changing the world!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LPI</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CERN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CERN</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/worldwideweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldwideweb</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a></p>
100% TAX ✅ ✅<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mamund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mamund</span></a></span> </p><p>Tim's on the fediverse!</p><p>timbl@w3c.social</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimBernersLee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBernersLee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a></p>
:mastodon: Mike Amundsen<p>35 years after first proposing the World Wide Web, what does its creator Tim Berners-Lee have in mind next?</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/technology/com</span><span class="invisible">munications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt</span></a></p><p>"After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again." -- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimDanton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimDanton</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/timbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timbl</span></a></p>
Denny Vrandečić<p>I want to believe that Solid is the next important step, but Leigh Dodds's recent post on Solid, and particularly the discussion in the post, didn't inspire hope.</p><p><a href="https://blog.ldodds.com/2024/03/12/baffled-by-solid/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ldodds.com/2024/03/12/baf</span><span class="invisible">fled-by-solid/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> </p><p>5/5</p>
Denny Vrandečić<p>Celebrating the 35th birthday of the World Wide Web, a letter by its founder, Tim Berners-Lee.</p><p>Discussing some of the issues of the Web of today: too much centralization, too much exploitation, too much disinformation, all made even more dire by the development of AI.</p><p><a href="https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">webfoundation.org/2024/03/mark</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TimBl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBl</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> </p><p>1/5</p>
Angelo Veltens<p>Tim Berners-Lee about the beginning of the <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a>, the current work on Web 3.0 aka <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/Solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solid</span></a> (not the blockchain fraud) and his view on <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> and <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DvBPnNigM&amp;t=1653" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=N_DvBPnNig</span><span class="invisible">M&amp;t=1653</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sfba.social/@peterme" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peterme</span></a></span> Not true unless you mean the first to display graphics inline on the page. <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TimBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimBL</span></a>’s original WorldWideWeb on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> was a GUI browser *and* editor, and Mosaic was preceding by Erwise and ViolaWWW.</p><p>Along with graphics on the page, the Mosaic team also quickly released Microsoft <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> ports. That’s why it was the first *popular* graphical browser.</p>