r/videos • u/Cart00nish • 1d ago

1997 Interview With Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) Warning How The Web Could Divide Us

https://youtu.be/BOHyLkp7TpE?feature=shared
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u/violenthectarez 15h ago

Remarkably prescient for 1997.

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u/quintk 4h ago

I wish I had seen it. In 1999 I legitimately thought the internet would end all racism and nationalism, by fostering easy and early contact being youth in different nations. (Like many youth I believed all problems were solely the result of adults in government, and that young people are better than that.  I did not contemplate that young people eventually become adults or that governments are the way they are because people support them, or that any historical event before my birth could still matter to people.)

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u/steve2166 1d ago

I swear it was Al Gore who invented it.

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u/APiousCultist 23h ago edited 23h ago

Americans taking credit for something they only played a minor role in, inconcievable.

But really, he didn't invent anything (the man was a politician, not a computer scientist). He did have a role in pushing funding for ARPANET and thus has a role in the internet, which is the actual system of connection. He did not have much of a role in the World Wide Web, which invented webpages and hyperlinks to create a web of interconnected information (and isn't just anything that happens on the Internet) that allows people to navigate across the internet rather than only being able to deliberately access a single resource at a time (because one thing can link to another).

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u/nastygamerz 17h ago

The A in ARPANET stands for Algore

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u/APiousCultist 17h ago

Algore, inventor of the Algoreithm.

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u/internetlad 13h ago

We're through the looking glass here people.

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u/steve2166 23h ago

First of all, I’m Balkan

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u/APiousCultist 23h ago

...Al Gore is American and a former presidential candidate. I wasn't talking about you taking credit.

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u/steve2166 23h ago

Second of all, I’m Balkan

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u/426763 19h ago

Nah, I'm pretty aure he invented that other internet thing. The Al-Gore-Rhythm.