Tim Berners-Lee Explains The Necessity Of Open Web Standards

An idiot journalist once introduced Tim Berners-Lee as the “Inventor of the Internet.” He was quickly and firmly corrected by the man himself, who pointed out that the he invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. (The Internet refers to technology that allows one computer to communicate with another within a network. When we refer to "the Internet", we really mean "the Web", which is the most widely used, standardized means of accessing and connecting those networks.) After a bit of a rocky start, my interview with Sir Berners-Lee and Karen Bartleson, president of the IEEE Standards Association, progressed--in large part--smoothly.