Tim Berners-Lee: WWW Will Not be Controlled By One Entity

[Guest]

If you had invented the world wide web, would you be happy with the way we are treating it?

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[sewalk]

"programming modems to browse web pages and retrieve email"

Really? Did you even bother to read that sentence after you wrote it?

 

[alchemy69]

He's just upset that the Higgs boson has upstaged him as CERN's most notable achievement.

 

[victorintelr]

[citation][nom]sewalk[/nom]"programming modems to browse web pages and retrieve email"Really? Did you even bother to read that sentence after you wrote it?[/citation]

Can you explain what is the mistake, please? I do not see it.

 

[john_4]

Good article and the guy is right. If not companies like Facebook then Governments will want to destroy the openness of the net. Facebook and the likes are for Tools and Fools.

 

[eddieroolz]

Facebook, Google, Microsoft...these are/were all guilty in some way or another of trying to control the internet.

 

[chewy1963]

[citation][nom]sewalk[/nom]"programming modems to browse web pages and retrieve email"Really? Did you even bother to read that sentence after you wrote it?[/citation]

You must not have been around in the early to mid 90's when many times one was forced to reprogram one's dial up modem to get it to work with various ISP's in retrieving web sites and email. The sentence is correct as it stands, it is you that failed to understand that that is actually how things used to be.

 

[xtc28]

Well we should be worried about a form of internet control ...... Censorship! This type of control has is likely to be far worse than other types of control.

 

[sewalk]

I remember configuring modems to switch between different modulation standards (like Bell 103 vs V.21) and the like but for the most part I remember configuring terminal emulators to employ different parity settings when connecting to different servers.
As far as retrieving mail and news, it was the offline mail reader I remember configuring, not the modem.

 

[ojas]

Man you guys used to program your own modems? Wow...

i can only diagnose and (often) fix my net connection

(93 born )