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Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee . The man who invented the World Wide Web. For just a minute, can you imagine life without…. http://www.aol.com, http://www.msn.com, http://www.google.com,http://www.yahoo.com,http://www.youtube.com,http://chicagotribune.com,www.facebook.com,www.myspace.com.

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Tim Berners-Lee

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  1. Tim Berners-Lee • The man who invented the World Wide Web

  2. For just a minute, can you imagine life without… http://www.aol.com, http://www.msn.com, http://www.google.com,http://www.yahoo.com,http://www.youtube.com,http://chicagotribune.com,www.facebook.com,www.myspace.com

  3. World Wide Web • What is it? • Per Berners-Lee: a “global hypertext system” • On the Web, you find: • Documents, Sounds, Videos, Information • An open, nonpropriety, and free community • What has it done? • Popularized HTML • Utilized the idea of URL • Created, and built upon the idea of HTTP (HyperTextTransfer Protocol) • CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE, WORK, and INTERACT

  4. The man who created the World Wide Web • Born June 8, 1955 in London, England • Oxford Educated(Physics Major) • While employed at CERN (the European • Organization for Nuclear Research), he created • the World Wide Web in 1991 Image from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm

  5. Major Accomplishments • While at CERN in 1980, he created a program called Enquire, which was a basic hypertext system. • * Based on outline by Vannevar Bush from 1945 • * Basically a system that links documents • On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee launched the first website: http://info.cern.ch • 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Articficial Intelligence (CSAIL) at MIT • Head of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at MIT • Co-Director of the Web Science Reasearch Initiative (WSRI) • Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS • Director of the World Wide Web Consortium • Became a fellow of the Royal Society in 2001, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2004, in 2007 was awareded the Order of Merit.

  6. Major Publications • Weaving the Web • by Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti • The Future of the Web. Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. (2007-03-01) • Japan Prize commemorative lecture on the universality of the Web (2002) • The web: Past, Present and Future (1996) • Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny , (1995) http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

  7. Past/Present/Future Influence on Education • Web integration has lead to many new ways of learning • Web 2.0 has amazing learning opportunities

  8. Glossary • HTML: hypertext markup language • - Describes the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. Basically, it is the language for encoding documents. • HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol • - A communications protocol used for retrieving inter-linked text documents. It is a request/response standard between a client and a server. A client is the end-user, the server is the web site.Basically, it is the system for linking documents. • WWW: World Wide Web • - A system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. • URL: Universal Resource Locator • - Specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it • -In popular language a URL is also referred to as a Web address. Basically, it is the system for addressing documents.

  9. 3 Questions • 1) What can students learn about the process of creating something “brand new”? • 2) What could be changed/done differently about the World Wide Web? • 3) What do you think will be the next technological advancement?

  10. References • Books: • Friedman, Thomas. The World Is Flat. New York: Picador, 2007. • Magazine Articles: • Quittner, Joshua. "The IQ Meritocracy". TIME Magazine March 29, 1999. • Wright, Robert. "The Man Who Invented The Internet". TIME Magazine May 19, 1997. • Websites: • "Homepage". World Wide Web Consortium. 01/20/2009 <http://www.w3.org/>

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