Name: Learn how to talk about the World Wide Web in 6 minutes
Uploaded: 2018-04-27T09:07:58.000Z
Duration: 6 min 17 s
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Rob: Now Neil, can you remember the first

question. I don't know if I can answer that.

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

Neil: Tricky but I think it's earlier than

people think so I'm going to go for 1985.

we'll reveal the answer a little later in the

programme. I think it's true to say that the

internet has been one of, if not the most

perhaps of all time. Would you agree Neil?

without it. Not impossible, but not nearly

particularly the companies that control its

Tim Berners-Lee: Initially I felt the main

thing an internet giant had to do was just

technology, will do wonderful things. And

clearly it doesn't work like that. If you

do produce, in general, wonderful things.

Neil: He said that he thought initially, that

they just had to be neutral. Initially means

'at first', 'in the beginning' and it also

Anyway, he said that he thought they just

that they didn't need to do anything, they

information. He thought it would be a tool

to connect people and ideas and information

personality. Some people write things that

says anonymity can bring out the nastiest

side of people. People saying horrible and

it's based on the idea of likes and shares,

which he calls kudos. What's his suggestion?

in different situations and in some cases

is an issue. I think they realise that the

issue could perhaps be hugely ameliorated by

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