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发表于 2003-6-1 15:38:25 |只看该作者

[分享] 每日一星！网络设计师－蒂姆伯纳斯李（1）

Network Designer: Tim Berners-Lee

[I] From the thousands of interconnected threads of the Internet, he wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century. [/I]

Want to see how much the world has changed in the past decade? Log on to the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire(British spelling about anything please). You’ll get about 30,000hits. It turns out you can “enquire” everything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia(“Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!”), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India(“Where excellence is not an act but a habit”). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company that aspecializes in “pet moving”(宠物运送). Enquire about buying industrial-age nuts and bolts from “the bolt Boys”(霹雳小子) in South Africa, or teddy bears in upstate New York. Exotic cigar labels! Four poster beds for dogs!(四柱小狗床)

So what, you say? Everybody knows that with a mouse, a modem and access to the Internet, these days you can point-and-click anywhere on the planet, unencumbered by time or space or long-distance phone tariffs.

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Ah, but scroll down the list far enough, hundreds of entries deep, and you’ll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: “Enquire Within Upon Everything(探究天下事)”--- a nifty(=exquisite) computer program written nearly 20 years ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim Berners---Lee. Who knew then that from this modest hack (计算机程序)would flow the civilization-altering, millionaire-spawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide Web?

Unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work of one man. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb, but he had dozens of people in his lab working on it. William Shockley may have fathered the transistor, but two of his research scientists actually built it. And if there ever was a thing that was made by committee, the Internet---with its protocols and packet switching---is it. But the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee’s alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, non-proprietary and free.

Building on ideas that were current in software design at the time, Berners-Lee fashioned a kind of “hypertext” notebook. Words in a document could be “linked” to other files on Berners-Lee’ computer; he could follow a link by number(there was no mouse to click back then) and automatically pull up its related document. It worked splendidly in its solipsistic(唯我论), Only-On-My-Computer way.

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发表于 2003-6-8 19:40:29 |只看该作者

[分享] 每日一星！网络设计师－蒂姆伯纳斯李（完）

It’s hard to overstate the impact of the global system he created. It’s almost Gutenbergian(1398-1468, 谷登堡，德国金匠，发明活字印刷术). He took a powerful communications system that only the elite could use and turned it into a mass medium. “If this were a traditional science, Berners-Lee would win a Nobel Prize,” Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell, once told the New York [I]Times[/I]. “What he’s done is that significant.”

You’d think he would have at least got rich; he had plenty of opportunities. But at every juncture, Berners-Lee chose the nonprofit road, both for himself and his creation. Marc Andreessen, who helped write the first popular Web Browser, Mosaic---which, unlike the master’s browser, put images and text in the same place, like pages in a magazine---went on co-found Netscape and become one of the Web’s first millionaires. Berners-Lee, by contrast, headed off in 1994 to an administrative and academic life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From a sparse（简朴） office at M.I.T., he directs the W3 Consortium, the standard-setting body that hlps Netscape, Microsoft and anyone else agree on openly published protocols rather than hold one another back with proprietary technology. The rest of the world may be trying to cash in on the Web’s phenomemenal growth, but Berners-Lee is content to labor quietly in the background, ensuring that all of us can continue, well into the new century, to Enquire Within Upon Anything.

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