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Highlight of my life right there, having my butt warmed by the residual heat of the inventor of the www's butt.
Ahem, in any case, congrats to him! Definitely well deserved.
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Yeah. I wish we had something more decentralised, like e-mail, but for social networks. Like, a standardized social network protocol that most people use (popularity is important here). There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.
Even email is no longer really decentralized. Google and a few other email silos now make up the bulk.
And soon will win the big brother award for accepting DRM ?
What about the WWW did he invent? Not hypertext, not SGML, not even MIME headers. There were even other competing hypertext systems like Hypercard and Gopher. TBL is extremely overrated.
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Bullying in schools will happen anyway. Should we create a standard so that it's done properly, in a way everybody can reproduce ?
That's a dumb analogy. Bullying is one-sidedly bad, hence there being a bully-victim relationship which is non-consensual. Content owners have - in principle, legally backed - the right to distribute their content in any way they see fit, and content consumers have the option to refuse that content if the format it is presented in is un-acceptable to them, this is a consensual producer-consumer relationship. If you f…
A figure like TBL openly supporting something like DRM sends a message, and it's not a good one.
Question: did TBL invent the WWW as part of a job-related project while at CERN, or did he invent it as a personal side-project using time/resources of his employer?