On the web’s 28th birthday, three challenges – from Sir Tim

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Good reading. Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the world wide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would al
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Where were we in 1989? I know that most homes in this part of the world didn’t have a computer… in fact, most small businesses didn’t!

If you’ve not heard of Sir Tim Berners-Lee before, here is some information from the World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Sir Tim “to build a better web for all”.

The 28th anniversary message can be found here:
http://webfoundation.org/2017/03/web-turns-28-letter/

It’s well worth the 5+ minutes to read in full

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Says it all doesn’t it……….. If only it was as it was planned!
Think that at AskWoody and AskWoodys Lounge the fight is being taken up by all!
Long may we be successful for our own good and for that of the world! LT

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me!

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Sir Tim has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award for 2016, reportedly the most prestigious award in Computing.

In an interview with BBC just published, he says

“moves to undermine encryption would be a “bad idea” and represent a massive security breach…
Sir Tim also criticised moves by legislators on both sides of the Atlantic, which he sees as an assault on the privacy of web users.
The web’s creator also said he was shocked by the direction the US Congress and Senate had taken when they voted to scrap laws preventing internet service providers from selling users’ data.
He said privacy online was as important as the trust between a doctor and a patient. “

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