WWW inventor says Internet 'œstill in its infancy'

William Atkins
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 18:22

Business IT - Open Source

In an interview with BBC News at the end of April 2008, Berners-Lee was quoted to have said, "The experience of international collaboration continues. Also the spirit that really we have only started to explore the possibilities of [the web], that continues." [PC Advisor: “Tim Berners-Lee: 'The internet is still young”]

He added, "The web has been a tremendous tool for people to do a lot of good even though you can find bad stuff out there." [PC Advisor]

And, "What's exciting is that people are building new social systems, new systems of review, new systems of governance. My hope is that those will produce... new ways of working together effectively and fairly which we can use globally to manage ourselves as a planet," [PC Advisor]

According to Netcraft, an Internet research company, about 165 million websites are in existence around the world. There are hundreds of millions of Internet users.

Learn more about the first website at CERN’s webpage: “The website of the world's first-ever web server."

Read a BBC biography of Berners-Lee at: "Tim Berners Lee (1955-)."

Learn more about The Web at: "The World-Wide Web: Origins and Beyond."