Father of worldwide web says internet needs ‘Magna Carta’ (Office, work)

[scobby]

World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee calls for web Magna Carta - Birmingham Mail

[Zot]

Considering the Internet was not invented by a single individual, and was a U.S. military project to begin with, it's tough to rely on history as justification for what is necessary today.

I agree we need better protection and privacy both online and within our own homes. However, it isn't likely to happen.

[Submariner]

At a quick glance it looks like in 1989, he made a push for folks to adopt HTTP, on the previously existing web.

So maybe it would be more appropriate to say that he 'fathered' HTTP?

This would have been sometime after Al Gore did his time-travel thing of 'creating' the web before he held office.

[Zot]

The first web browser that went into broad distribution was NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer Applications), a research institute at the University of Illinois. Funding was provided by a federal grant, the federal grant from a law, which Senator Al Gore supported. The authors of Mosaic would have been Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. Now if you believe Al Gore, he may have created the web by supporting funding for internet research, or if you believe Wikipedia Marc and Eric wrote Mosaic. Though Marc and Eric were students. However Marc and Eric were shown another browser by Joseph Hardin and Dave Thompson who were colleagues. The browser shown was ViolaWWW Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau who worked at CERN.

Prior to that, it was telnet, ftp, with searching by archie and veronica. The internet was almost exclusively text, or via ftp applications and pictures could be moved up or down. Before internet it was X.25 and other variant packet switch networks.

Without the web, internet wasn't as useful for most.

The number of people who could claim to be the parent of internet or the web is likely vast.

[Submariner]

We had fun with Compuserve in the early 80s, and Fidonets around 90, too