Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Oct 12, 2011
http://www.ted.com Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And ... he didn't buy it. A short story about information, connectivity and learning from mistakes.
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His joke at the end wasn't that funny, it was self-deprecating.... jeez you'd think he was Louis CK with the way you people comment. Everything the speaker says for the rest of his life will be dramatic or an inside-joke based on his having a complex about being such a failure of historical-proportions.
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@woohoobulot It isn't about patience... it's about hearing protection.
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Re: Intro Video
Dear Ted,
PLEASE TURN DOWN THE VOLUME!!!
4 months ago 6
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The starting sound is something that shows where TED seeks knowledge, only in the talkers, never in the listeners. i have seen so many people complaining about the loud music, that quite obvious there must be some bias toward the "important people" ...
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That sound at the beginning doesn't bother me at all.
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@woohoobulot it's not about the length of the intro, it's about the volume, lol.
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Loved the joke at the end! Priceless!!!!!!!
essen961 4 months ago 71
@woohoobulot It's not patience. The start is SO LOUD compared to the talk
Tehtog 4 months ago 14