Tech Shout!

Tim Berners-Lee, the mastermind and creator of World Wide Web, has started a blog, which falls at an appropriate time as he is all set to celebrate the 15th anniversary of his invention.

In his first entry, Berners-Lee remarked on how the Web boomed as a publishing medium rather than one in which visitors not only read but also contributed information.

Berners-lee wrote, WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship.

The pattern has changed off late with the growing popularity of blogs, which are online diaries that often let visitors submit comments, and wikis, which are sites in which visitors can add, change and even delete what they see.

Their popularity “makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space,” wrote Berners-Lee, who added that he decided to start a blog to get a chance to play with blogging tools.

Berners-Lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research. Initially he could not get the project formally approved, but quietly tinkered with it anyway, making the first browser available at CERN by Christmas Day 1990.