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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks about the Web Again

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-itsy-bitsy-spider dept.

takyon writes:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave an interview with radio station WBUR about the state of the Web and its future:

Berners-Lee initially imagined the web as a beautiful platform that could help us overcome national and cultural boundaries. He envisioned it would break down silos, but many people today believe the web has created silos.

And he still largely sees the potential of the web, but the web has not turned out to be the complete cyber Utopian dream he had hoped. He's particularly worried about the dark side of social media — places where he says anonymity is being used by "misogynist bullies, by nasty people who just get a kick out of being nasty."

He also identified personal data privacy, the spread of misinformation, and a lack of transparency in online political advertising as major problems with the current Web in a letter marking the World Wide Web's 28th birthday last month.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 06 2017, @12:31PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 06 2017, @12:31PM (#489622) Journal

    Perhaps WWW should have HTML replaced with SGML which it tries to emulate anyway.

    HTML is SGML [wikipedia.org] (but SGML isn't HTML)

    Berners-Lee considered HTML to be an application of SGML. It was formally defined as such by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with the mid-1993 publication of the first proposal for an HTML specification, the "Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)" Internet Draft by Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly, which included an SGML Document Type Definition to define the grammar.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 07 2017, @11:24PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday April 07 2017, @11:24PM (#490601) Journal

    Is there any alternative to HTML/SGML that would be even better for a networked interactive hypertext system?