The dream that envisioned the Web →
It all starts with a dream. Even the Web started with one. Here’s how Tim Berners Lee described his dream of the World Wide Web:
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“I have a dream for the Web…and it has two parts.
In the first part, the Web becomes a much more powerful means for collaboration between people. I have always imagined the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just to browse, but to create. The initial WorldWideWeb program opened with an almost blank page, ready for the jottings of the user. Robert Cailliau and I had a great time with it, not because we were looking at a lot of stuff, but because we were writing and sharing our ideas. Furthermore, the dream of people-to-people communication thorough shared knowledge must be possible for groups of all sizes, interacting electronically with as much ease as they do now in person.
In the second part of the dream, collaborations extend to computers. Machines become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web —the content,links, and transactions between people and computers. A “Semantic Web,” which should make this possible has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy, and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines, leaving humans to proivide the inspiration and intuition.”[1]
[1] Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
