“Exactly 30 years ago, on 30 April 1993, CERN made an important announcement. Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber, respectively the Director of Research and Director of Administration at the time, decided to publicly release the tool that Tim Berners-Lee had first proposed in 1989 to allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data all over the globe to share information accurately and quickly. Little did they know how much it would change the world. On this day in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web to the public. Now, it is an integral feature of our daily lives: according to the International Telecommunications Union, more than 5 billion people, two thirds of the worldwide population, rely on the internet regularly for research, industry, communications and entertainment. “Most people would agree that the public release was the best thing we could have done, and that it was the source of the success of the World Wide Web,” says Walter Hoogland, co-signatory of the document that proclaimed the Web’s release, “apart from, of course, the World Wide Web itself!””
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“We need a structure where we meet at a faster pace the demands of new web capabilities and address the urgent problems of the web. The W3C Team is small, bounded in size, and the Hosted model hinders rapid development and acquisition of skills in new fields. We need to put governance at the center of the new organization to achieve clearer reporting, accountability, greater diversity and strategic direction, better global coordination. A Board of Directors will be elected with W3C Member majority. It will include seats that reflect the multi-stakeholder goals of the Web Consortium. We anticipate to continue joint work with today’s Hosts in a mutually beneficial partnership.”
Source : W3C Media Advisory: W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization
“On attendait du fondateur de la promesse émancipatrice du Web autre chose qu’une molle ambition contractuelle qui serve de clause de bonne conscience à des entreprises prédatrices de nos libertés et de nos droits. On attendait de Tim Berners-Lee qu’il continue de désigner les coupables, et non qu’il leur fournisse un alibi commode. Car tant que la table des négociations se trouvera dans la salle des marchés, le Web continuera de mourir.”
Source : On ne sauvera pas le Web en dînant avec ses assassins – Libération
“L’objectif : créer, en deux semaines, un Web alternatif qui puisse tenir sur une clé USB d’1 giga. Il raconte : « On a tout déconstruit, et listé ce à quoi ils tenaient dans le Web : à Wikipédia, à la communication, aux mèmes… Chacun se répartit une des fonctions du web et ils recréent leurs services à eux. Les étudiants aiment YouTube, pas pour YouTube en lui-même mais pour la connaissance qu’ils y trouvent. Cela pose aussi des questions de gouvernance : puisqu’on ne peut pas tout faire tenir sur 1 Go, faut-il faire sortir un service pour en laisser entrer un autre ? Déterminer une durée de vie pour un site ? ». Les étudiants vont fabriquer leur propre serveur avec un Rasberry Pi, et l’alimenter avec un panneau solaire. « Comme ça, la nuit, notre web n’est plus accessible et il revient le lendemain matin (c’est aussi le cas du site du Low-Tech Magazine, ndlr). On va s’amuser avec des contraintes. »”
“Solid is guided by the principle of “personal empowerment through data” which we believe is fundamental to the success of the next era of the web. We believe data should empower each of us. Imagine if all your current apps talked to each other, collaborating and conceiving ways to enrich and streamline your personal life and business objectives? That’s the kind of innovation, intelligence and creativity Solid apps will generate. With Solid, you will have far more personal agency over data – you decide which apps can access it.” – Tim Berners-Lee
Source : One Small Step for the Web… — Inrupt
«Les données personnelles ne sont pas le nouveau pétrole. Si je vous donne mes données, ce n’est pas comme du pétrole, ce n’est pas comme de l’eau, je les ai encore. Ce sont les miennes. […] Si vous les envoyez dans le cloud à un tiers, comme une compagnie d’assurance, je suis juste un point pour eux. Mais, moi, je suis moi, et je veux garder le contrôle» – Tim Berners Lee.
Source : L’inventeur du Web exhorte à réguler l’intelligence artificielle
A friendly reminder to mark the web’s birthday today. The web and the internet are not the same thing. The web was invented by @timberners_lee and the internet was invented by @vgcerf. #HappyBirthdayWWW 🌐
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— The Web Foundation (@webfoundation) 12 mars 2018
«These dominant platforms are able to lock in their position by creating barriers for competitors. They acquire startup challengers, buy up new innovations and hire the industry’s top talent. Add to this the competitive advantage that their user data gives them and we can expect the next 20 years to be far less innovative than the last. What’s more, the fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponise the web at scale» – Tim Berners-Lee.
Source : The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it. – World Wide Web Foundation
In short, the Web is what it is today because of Sir Tim’s brilliant design, based on his synthesis of several key ideas and his technical leadership. The ACM recognizes Sir Tim with the Turing Award for this enduring contribution to the computing community.
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