His goal: keeping the Web worldwide
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Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and believes that one of his greatest challenges will be to keep it from being controlled by a single company or group of companies. In Dec 1990, Berners-Lee developed the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), HTML and the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) as methods for allowing scientists to collaborate over long distances on a single project. In the summer of 1990, he put his programs on the Internet, where they formed the basis for the World Wide Web with its support for multimedia applications. Berners-Lee serves as director of the World Wide Consortium, a standards body for the Internet. The consortium boasts over a 100 members, including all the large software vendors with Internet aspirations. To date, the largest threat to open development on the World Wide Web has been the creation of proprietary extensions, which only a specific company's Web browser can understand.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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They let their fingers do the talking; keyboards blazing, net queens and kings rule the on-line forums
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Entrepreneurs are setting up bulletin boards and discussion forums on the Internet and are turning casual hobbies into full-time businesses. One user set up an entertainment forum for users to discuss movies and television. Eventually, the forum became a business with a full-time staff of 30 people. Those setting up such forums often are experts in their fields and tend to be good at leading discussions without dominating them. Analysts say that the future in online information services will be specialized forums such as these and that users will eventually choose from various forums just as they choose from various television programs today. There are some drawbacks to operating online forums. One user received death threats after warning other users about an investment scam on his personal finance forum.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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On-line stars hear siren call of free agency
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On-line service providers are being forced to allow site founders to expand to the World Wide Web as the sites' popularity gives the founders negotiating power. The site creators are independent contractors, but the on-line services, until now, have been able to hold them to contracts that demanded exclusivity and gave the on-line services as much as 80% of the profits from a particular site. The site founders are growing restless with these restrictions and are setting up sites on the Web because a bigger audience of PC users can access the Web more easily, thanks to Web browsers. The on-line services must now define a new role for themselves as more content moves to the Web. They must also find a way for their proprietary systems to work with the Web's open technology.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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