People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

Tim Berners Lee

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Cool URIs don't change

Cool URIs don't change

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

You affect the world by what you browse.

You affect the world by what you browse.