Tim Berners-Lee (M.I.T.), father of the World Wide Web...

[osama5739]

He is a good man

[youssef71718]

It is very fantastic

[mo12ha34]

Mohamed Amr:the video is fantastic

[mo12ha34]

The video isv very nice

[omartarek34]

thank you

[agentx2105]

hello I am mouaaz ashraf for grade 7 in e.i.s

I liked this video and I admire Sir Tim Berners Lee.

[Osama2012Raafat]

thankx

[Nourycruise]

Tim Berners-Lee: Helped found the Internet, supports net neutrality

[Nourycruise]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee:Helped found the Internet,supports net neutrality &the Freedom of Internet

[manuhunter101]

i wonder why everyone knows zuckerberg but only a few people know berners-lee...

[yellowmustang71]

@manuhunter101 prob because zuckerberg is worth many billions, and is under 30, which is not the case with berners lee.

Berners lee prob contributed more to the web, but even so, only young billionaires like zuckerberg make forbes and headlines. Perhaps Berners lee could've made a lot more than zuckerberg if he wanted, but he chose not to.

[omartron]

I'm in the university in the city next to the one where he works :)

[jjovereats]

I'm more apt to use the 'net on my 1000000000000000-year old typewriter - see - older than even the universe.

After god and before the universe was God's typewriter. It was the typewriter I have a copy of, the Olivetti Linea 98.

[musicalidea]

If the GOP and the DNC (the 2 faces of Wall ST's 1 party rule) have their way, this video will be removed from the Web in 10 years: Tim Berners-Lee: who was he?

[kenny9525]

the dislikes didint know what he was talking about, bless em,

[dudeB15]

hi im Tim Berners Lee and i invented the WWWeb, so who was Einstein again??

[InGrannysFace]

Thank you!

[andrew8833]

Just one note to the uploader, hes actually a Sir now.

Was given a Knighthood by our Queen, well will have been the government but she would have formally given him the Knighthood.

[jjacksonRIAB]

"In the US, the threat is that companies will control what I can access for commercial reasons"

"In China, the threat is that the government will control what I can access for political reasons"

So what he is saying is that in order to prevent the US scenario, we need to become the China scenario.

No thanks.

[okdewit]

@jjacksonRIAB

No, that is complete nonsense. China has NO net neutrality, Tim Berners-Lee is warning that the US situation can become like the chinese situation, although in the US it will be primarily used for commercial reasons. For example, AT&T could offer you a DSL line, and block all advertisements for sprint mobile phones. Or comcast could add commercials for NBC television shows to all search results by fiddling with your DNS.

[musicalidea]

@jjacksonRIAB No, he is NOT saying that! He opposes the draconian use of the Internet by corporate entities - the most powerful & most undemocratic institutions in existence - to not only limit info (say news reports on their lawsuits, illegal child labor & environmental destruction), but also mine it (say by observing our clicking patterns to determine that we support a certain political party that they don't like, that we have a certain disease that our ins. co. can then charge us more 4).

[jjacksonRIAB]

@musicalidea Net neutrality already exists. You are quite literally throwing unneeded power at the federal government; the same government that wants IP Protect and other laws. Any "net neutrality" legislation will have the opposite of the intended effect, like the PATRIOT act.

[musicalidea]

@jjacksonRIAB In this case you might be right...But you might not be. How else are we going to get Google and Yahoo and Bing from filtering out the sites of those that criticize their corrupt practices or those of their corporate friends? Or, promoting sites that criticize essential and desperately needed organizations like labor unions and progressive political reform groups? A bigger issue even than net neutrality, however, is internet privacy. What r ur suggestions? Post an online resource.

[cookie5618]

@jjacksonRIAB he's totally NOT SAYING THAT... gee what an idiot

[cookie5618]

@jjacksonRIAB he's totally NOT SAYING THAT... gee what an idiot - net neutrality is about neither of those happening

[jjacksonRIAB]

@cookie5618 Poor substitute for actual argument is to attack people. Fuck off.

[jjacksonRIAB]

"In the US, the threat is that companies will control what I can access for commercial reasons"

"In China, the threat is that the government will control what I can access for political reasons"

Tim Berners-Lee, though I respect what he has done, couldn't be more wrong on this point. The US government has made far more attempts to regulate and destroy the internet than any ISP. The threat to the internet in the USA is the China scenario, not some trumped up nonsense about corporations.

[kev3d]

Ok, so if one pays for a certain level of connectivity, why do we need a regulatory body that "ensures" that this happens? Any disputes would be a matter of contractual obligation, either on the customer or the provider side. There are already laws for this. One needs only to look at the FCC's record, where there is censorship and corporate protectionism in Television and Radio. Getting the government OUT of the Net is what made it wonderful, now people want to invite it back in.

[mckinzey62]

This guy is much smarter than me but he does not live in the real world. The government will not stop with guaranteeing service for a certain amount of money. Is he saying we should have government price control? That worked great for the airline industry and poultry industry in the 70s. Relax Tim. Companies provide the service we pay for. If you don’t like it then go to another company. We are protected from price fixing already. It’s ok to let the free market work. Its not broke

[charmingdevil84]

This is Tim Berlerns Lee... and I invited the world wide web.. Daaeeem

[schvayschkel]

i want to come back to use camels i do not want to see any manifest of technology i do not want to use cars any more i want circulate as i want in this world i do not want to be clever or genius i want to stay stupid but in a pacific world and i am sure if technology disappear all the sicknesses will disappear

[Brudof]

@schvayschkel You can't be serious. We are far better off today than we were hundreds of years ago. 

[bjarnet3]

People and companies strongly support Net Neutrality,,, If a company is not supporting their customers with New Neutrality,, they loose a lot of customers and go out of business. YOU NEED NO LAW TO PROTECT THIS. There are unintended consequences with these kinds of laws... JUST WAIT AND SEE.

[mckinzey62]

@bjarnet3 Testify Brother

[UtiliSupport]

Google supports him. Giving out source code to all there programs, attempting to make every other internet provider speed up there internet at same or lower cost like google's is. Google is the present and future.

[JONNOG88]

Where it not for you Tim.

I would'nt be writing this now.

Thanks Tim

One of the greatest living Britons.

A modern day Alan Turing.

Although unlike him. Tim is not an Atheist, (Not that, that matters ofcourse)

[FlashGuyMX]

Net neutrality will end the internet. The sites pay a boat load of cash to have thier sites on. they charge you a boat load of cash to use thier sites and then you pay the companies a boat load of cash so that you can use less sites. SERIOUSLY WTF. Although I think new sites should pass regulation but not by net neutrality.

[brazil004]

God Dam his heavy breathing and lip smacking is annoying!!!

[TheGoalSetter]

Ooooo, an "official" expert tells me a tiny bit about what Net Neutrality is and we are supposed to accept all of Net Neutrality.

Spare us your lame pathos rhetoric.

[MerlinYoda]

@TheGoalSetter Umm... he just laid out what Net Neutrality is ... it's *not* that complicated (and I didn't hear any pathos rhetoric, only sound, logical points). Unless you believe that ISP's have the "right" to limit/block traffic going across their networks based on the *content* of that traffic, you should be *for* with Net Neutrality...

Also, for the record, Net Neutrality != Govt. Controlled Internet ... if legislation goes too far then it's no longer "Net Neutrality" ... Comprende?

[wookie1289]

why do republicans support their representatives on destroying net neutrality when that leads to increase in utilities costs an no economic benefits for them? why not just privatize oxygen we're breathing?

[0nePumpChump]

@wookie1289

They would if they could.

They support it because they all think they are John Galt.

[wookie1289]

@0nePumpChump so the right to get money in w/e way possible, respecting that right to be practiced by all. How... dumb. Very right-wing like.

[glenboarder99]

HAHA this is sampled in so may songs

[blastarrbollaxIII]

There he is the sodding Shyster, selling us out to the UK Govt.

Soft soaping us in the UK with this 'Individual Government Web Page' crap.

It just a Govt database file that's in itself an ID card, that people will have to go to centres and be fingerprint scanned & face recognised & given a ID number to log on.

Web cam CCTV camera in our homes to get access to it.

STUFF the bloody scheme, it's Fascism.

It'll be the end of our freedoms.

Bloody traitor Berners-Lee.

It's the mark of the Beast.

[MonokelJohn]

Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet. He invented the World Wide Web.

[polychronio]

@MonokelJohn world wide web is what majority people call internet. internet service=world wide web.

[MonokelJohn]

@polychronio Are you saying that you don't mind him being credited as the creator of the Internet, even though he isn't?

World Wide Web doesn't equal Internet. I know what people may think - but what the majority of people think shouldn't matter in this case.

[polychronio]

@MonokelJohn yeah you are right but he has done most important job in making internet usable to most of the people. without him, internet is just for military use. berners lee is one who made internet what people call internet today's world.

[Ryan199403]

@MonokelJohn

And the world wide web is the internet dumbass.

[gr0mithtimon]

@Ryan199403

Rubbish. The internet is network, the web is a system of hypertext documents which one can access via the internet. As an example, e-mail is part of the internet, but not of the web. P2P (such as torrents) is part of the internet, but not of the web. etc.

[MrGodelFan]

The real problem is the government regulations that enable "intellectual" property in the first place. You can't own an idea if you telegraph it, or in this case podcast it. The computers are our property. We have a right to protection of property.

[pigfister]

seems this guy is now in the UK government why does he not fight for this on our side of the pond?

[MrGodelFan]

Probably because he's British. He might not be eligible for US office.

[pigfister]

seems this guy is now in the UK government why does he not fight for this on our side of the pond?

[haykier11]

So a English man Inveted the Internet?

[techguruuk]

No, the Web.

[CSMR]

The definition of Net Neutrality doesn't seem robust. (If I pay for a given QOS and you pay for a given QOS, we can connect at the lesser of the two.

If this means it should be illegal for a connection be better than the lesser QOS then it's illegal to prioritize traffic, or to be better than expected.

If it means, we can connect at at least the lesser of the two QOS, then any internet contract will satisfy net neutrality with small enough service QOS. It's just a matter of labelling then.

[MoJoSB]

Yes indeed.

I'm more apt to believe The Creator of the web Tim Berners-Lee,

then McCain, the creator of paperwork.

[EvilTurkey1021]

Tim Berners-Lee: Helped found the Internet, supports net neutrality.

John McCain: Cannot use a computer, opposes net neutrality.

Doesn't get simpler than that.

[keenanlfc]

This guy is a prophet! All hail tim.

[DIABLOVT12]

I bow to the lord, of The World Wide Web.

[1Antonov]

thanks

[athlon866]

Large company runs the house of commons and senate. How is it possible they stand by people's interests?

[ThomasFelix1983]

Do you pay for the internet at you home??

[samgee2007]

ther muslims invented the internet long before the christians! It is written in al quran

[Winthorpej]

> ther muslims invented the internet long before the christians!

> It is written in al quran

?!

I'm sure the rest of that conversation is an interesting one. :-]

[atthepistol]

Ha ha! Written by... a Muslim? can it be? I don't know what your on about mate. Sir Tim invented the internet. It has nothing to do with any religion. What is it with you Muslims? Why cant you just be a Muslim and get on with your life? No one cares about you.

[lateralus011]

honestly, worst lie ever. Yeah a bunch of towel-heads sittin around in the sand developed the internet. Come up with a better lie than that say muslims made postit notes or scrambled eggs but we all know you guys would be the last with the internet

[LesBurnham]

Well, a bunch of towel-heads sitting around in the sand developed algebra and perfected spheric geometry, trigonometry and arithmetic. Oh yeah and the numbers we use were also developed by them. These are all achievements without wich modern computing let alone networking would'nt have been possible. I'm not an Arab nor am I a muslim but I believe in giving credit where credit is due. Nevertheless Tim Berns-Lee is a visionary and we should be listening to what he says instead of feeding a troll

[lateralus011]

the freakin mayans had numbers the only real father of modern algebra was Descartes, he invented the coordinate plane without which newton could never have created calculus and worked on methods of solving polynomials which is intertwined with the fundamental theorem of algebra. He was french. Even then if Newton hadnt made calculus Gottfried Leibniz wouldve my point being that without them math would still be here even if you can think of any contribution arabs made to mathematics.

[LesBurnham]

Cool story bro.

[ITwarriorTI]

If he doesn't follow the guide line he will be assassinated, this is why is doing it, not just him he is a enemy to the elite and if he doesn't comply is whole family and himself are in danger, there is no justice on this damn planet.

[Aswarp]

Part II: I am sure that is what will happen sometime in the near future. Tim's speech is too conservative and continuist for an innovator. He is obviously guided by some forces, such as the ones who wrote the political speech he is obviously reading during the video. I hope he gets back in his mind anytime soon.

[Aswarp]

Part I: I really could not imagine Tim could give out such an amount of nonsensical arguments. I agree in that the loss of net neutrality would be bad for the public in the beginning. BUT: if the political and commercial forces try to privatize the Net, that is not necessary bad for the public on the long term, because now we have the technology to spawn one or many parallel networks, which may be completely free in ways we can barely imagine today.

[leadbelly123]

@Aswarp

actually you're the one giving out nonsensical arguments. you go on about this being a good thing in the long term without giving any examples why this would be so. his argument is very simple and easy to understand: control of information is POWER. for someone to have control over what you see, what you read, as well as, your viewing habits, what you like, what you dislike, your political affiliations, etc, that's a huge amount of power in the hands of governments and corporations.

[JWLuke787]

@leadbelly123 Its ok, he might be trolling. Just simply reply lol next time and he'll move on.

[FappingFury]

STOP LOOKING AT YOUR LINES

[mymoogle24]

You guys know that this will mess with many people?!, From Google, youtube, msn, skype, webdesigners, host, ebay, amazon... you know..

In my opinion this will not happend. Because if those i will be a new World War. Think has people and you will see.

[boxa888]

tesla was the father of the internet, actually wireless internet! please research it, tesla made wardenclyffe towers that would use the earth as the internet connection and other towers would be the routers of messages! this was 110 YEARS AGO! please research it, tesla was going to make cell phone devices for phone communication and internet access, just like the cell phones of today work!! POOR TESLA,HE MADE THE INTERNET WITH ROUTERS! 110 YEARS AGO!!!!!

[TOAFN]

It's happening in Europe too. Bunch of totalitarian criminals.

[HiAdrian]

Yup, what a shame. The Web is possibly the last big shot at creating an open world, where fascism cannot plant its seeds. If it gets censored, mankind has shot itself in the foot BIG TIME.

[mounir00015]

thank you MR Tim Berners-Lee from Morocco

[1schwererziehbar1]

wow that was more than 2 years ago and the internet is still not dead.

[hjastroi]

it's remarkable that somebody of such huge importance to humanity is so unrecognizable to most people. He is deserving of so much more recognition.

[Gunnarsguns]

yes.....it is truly amazing

[stocken]

hear! hear!

[MegaBrits]

So true, he gave the internet away as a "gift to humanity" for free - He didn't make a bean from it, unlike the greedy and dodgy Bill Gates has.

Rule Britannia. Advance Britannia.

[boxa888]

ALSO nikola tesla! 110 yrs ago he made the wireless internet that would be accessable by anyone on earth, first communication tower/ router was called wardenclyffe tower. i put up a ton of information on it everyone! ITS IMPORTANT, TESLA ISNT KNOWN EITHER,wecould of had wirless internet 110 yrs ago!!! POOR NIKOLA TESLA!

[mojoefly]

more of unknown even. i just learned of him now.

[LukePhillipsWINS]

one of the greatest brits

[wolfishjournal]

who told you he is a brit? you should do some research other than just imagining things.

[LukePhillipsWINS]

what? hes british whos imagining things? retard lol

[Boccherini64]

He's a Brit born in England, went to Oxford i believe worked at CERN before working in the US

[poostinkpoo1]

you my friend are retarded

[Ironzealot7531]

curse you Tim Berners-Lee!

what has thou wrought!?

[numberonesurvivor75]

Thank you for your great invention though. I'm interested in the Semantic Web development.

[numberonesurvivor75]

I think Tim Breners-Lee makes a few philosophical errors in his statements here. In fact, he contradicts the philosophic principles that he employed to create the web.

[delta8]

G R A C I A S "TIM BERNERS-LEE"

[Matanumi]

interesting

[KidWiruz]

He looks many times down. Does he want to read our comments? xD

[AcuteAnalogy]

The World Wide Web and the Internet are two totally different things. If you're curious to see how the Internet was invented, there are great, riveting videos that'll blow you away. The story behind the birth of the Internet is fascinating. Type Leonard Kleinrock into the YouTube search box and you'll find the videos. And don't be scared when you hear the words "packet switching"...Kleinrock does a wonderful job of explaining complex things that a dumb ditch digger like me can understand.

[BlackProteus]

If I were Tim Berners-Lee, I wouldn't even talk to anyone anymore. Every time someone came up to me, I'd just flex my biceps and scream at them: "I'm Tim fucking Berners-Lee! I invented the World Wide Web! What have you done? Huh? Nothing, that's what! Kiss my biceps. I'm Tim Berners-Lee, bitches! I invented the World Wide Web!!!" I mean really, he pretty much has the right to be like that, in my opinion.

[pitcheroz]

He is too smart to do that, and by the way his middle name is not fucking. So that would be Sir Tim Berners-Lee to you and I as well ofc. ;)

[BlackProteus]

Thank you. I stand corrected. He should be saying, "I'm *Sir* Tim Berners-Lee, bitches. Get it? Like Sir Galahad or Sir Paul McCartney. In fact, I am the court of Camelot and all four Beatles rolled into one. Now kiss my biceps!"

[SirMildredPierce]

This video would be way better if it were just a wee bit more quiet.

[rowanrockhopper2]

@SirMildredPierce Have you considered adjusting the volume on your speakers? 0_o

[phoenixshadowxx]

Ok i dont liek the idea where the net which is supposed to be free is wrapped up in a package and sold back to us.... social websites and some small time forums will collapse if this comes about not to mention a lot of small time company's websites will also cease to exist, this is just another excuse as a form of control and getting more money at the same time.

[studavies1971]

world wide web was a British invention

[YogaNate79]

The internet wa invented in America in the year 1983 and was first called ARPANET. Sir Tim Berniers Lee invented the World-Wide Web.

[zluvu4ever]

If I'm not mistaken...the World Wide Web is the most commonly used webpage request system that is accessed through a web-browser, internet device and internet connection.

[Social8th]

America is run by the british..just look at the surnames of the ones leading the power. We are in control and it will be free what ever anyone doubts!

[fulsomstryk]

Last I checked, the United States was a sovereign and independent state.

[bawllastyles]

last i checked the US was a Crooked and Corrupt corporation itself and wanted to eliminate sovereignty in its own and other nations,.......

You bastad

[ikekll]

StellarMortem, I think he should stay!

;)

he's a consumer advocate. He's giving excellent information.

Do you want to have to pay to visit certain websites?

[StellarMortem]

I think he should leave the great US and take his wife and children back to England

[icepikoftime]

he's being more American than you. Don't tell him to leave us because he has an opinion. It's people like him that make this great nation what it is. sob

[StellarMortem]

Fuck you!

You leave!

Free country and I can tell anyone I want to leave

He's a prick like you!

[ColectvIndvidulism1]

Perhaps the crux of this issue is the emerging technology surrounding the use of frequencies.I sincerely believe in freedom of speech.I'm alarmed because over the last couple of years, the F.C.C.has allowed the frequencies once owned by the American public to be purchased by private interests.I believe we should allow those frequencies to revert back into the public trust.Then let's revisit the issue, and hear from the people instead of those most interested in frequency oriented emerging tech.

[warriorprince1010]

The internet was first invented by the russian army. The world wide web was invented by tim and thats a great achievement we shouyld thank the guy for it, a real breakthrough. Nationality is not important in reality, but the british have given the world more than most, I guess thats where some of the anti britishness stems from, old fashioned jealousy.

[stujam2]

Americas not the place that has to have invent everything. Go Britian

[hvale2k5]

who cares who invented, just thank the guy for a wonderful internet we had today...

[Stills99]

Tim, please get a decent teleprompter and do this one over again. You're looking to far away from the lens at your copy and it's a distraction. Message is too important to get in the way of it, IMHO.

FWIW

[UKSFSG]

WOW another British invention

[sondano]

There would be 'net', in fact there already was a 'net' before anyone heard of this guy. There wouldn't be 'web' without Tim. Two different things which seems to me 99% of web users cannot understand.

[UKSFSG]

Your just pissed because hes British and not American

[icepikoftime]

and that could be why hes saying that or it could be because hes a perfectionist

[icepikoftime]

you are off the topic noone cares if he invented the net or the web the point is he invented the web and it really doesnt matter if people say net instead of web people will still know what they're talking about. tomatoe tomatoe lmao

[Stills99]

Tim, take a look at the US Const., Amendment IX: "The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This is the Const. lingo that (if used) will protect the Internet from encroachment, at least in the US. The signers put it in, just in case they forgot to add Freedom of TV, freedom of Radio, Freedom of the Internet when they put in speech and press, assembly & religion.

[filmidioten]

Corporate America and big money companies has way too much influence on Congress, which in turn, has the power to change/abuse the US Constitution.

[brad09w]

A waste of energy worrying about net neutrality Money rules its only a matter of time

before we are cut off.

[SidepocketPro]

Yes because money ruled when black were free right. Besides, there would be a major way to undermind it if the Companies win.

[icepikoftime]

thats the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard

[vTwoPoint]

Random youtube visitor says that Tim Berners-Lee (Who invented and continues to enhance the internet) and is talking rubbish..... hmmm, I wonder who I will believe

[fulsomstryk]

Well, you are using his invention right now! xDDD Hahaha!

[vmedia69]

How can anyone beleive ATT, Comcast and other Corporate Cronies have anyones interest but their own. - Support Net Neutrality

[vintage70]

He has a strange scottish twang to his accent, given that he is not scottish.

[prfctday]

Classic example of the origins of American accents. He's obviously lived in America for many years and I can hear Scottish and Irish just like in almost any true American accent. Say this line from "Cool Runnings" in a Jamaican accent and tell me it's not Irish: "what ever's wrong wit ya, 'taint no small ting" :-o

[burnvictim77]

Interestingly, he can't produce what these threats to our 'net neutrality' are. Can anyone cite ANYTHING?

[ianmcktay]

I think this video was meant more as basic information on the concept of net neutrality. Do your own research before you make a decision on it either way.

[burnvictim77]

I totally agree with that. Everyone should seriously look into the issue. Don't listen to what anyone says and take it as scripture. There are tons of agendas around, on any side of the issue.

[Billy42]

Internet suppose to be free coz the govt now wanted to control it... pls. search for user "soca7 or Assalam23 " and see all does video 1by1 U will know why the govt don't want us to see n known..the thruth.

[gutiarmaniac]

dude no mre internet noooooooooooo

[heikoxxxxxx]

For more info on Net Neutrality and a free Internet PLEASE go to my myspace-site - there you will find LOTS of other videos and background information (please click on my name) I am a member of savetheinternet

[NarutoXFlame]

wow this is very serious the creator of the www coming here just to tell us man im scared the internet is my life lol

[astroperson]

This is important stuff. If TBL is appearing, this means it is serious, no matter where the guy is from.

[bullseye2121]

yea smart guy a pitty that most of ppl around the world think americans made the world wide web, ppl should credit this guy and not say that america made it.

[hutsell]

I got to meet him in San Jose, California and I understand the reasoning behind your comment. Actually though, he invented the web document. There is a difference between the web (html) page server, email (smtp) server, file transfer (ftp) server, domain (dns) name server, chat (irc) server and that  Internet Arpanet thing started in the early 70's. But what he did is still amazing and I'm glad he was the one to do it.

[sondano]

The Arpanet and the the Internet were different things. Internet is a metanetwork, a "network of networks". Apranet was just a small single network.

[sondano]

Americans built the first internet. And without internetworking there couldn't be World Wide Web as we know it.

[mykimochi]

You're such an idiot...

[PowerExpress]

Actually the first prototype of the World Wide Web was a series of wall charts at CERN in Switzerland. It was not using the Internet at all.

[aleterra]

congratulations Tim Berners Lee!