Note: This talk is an old one from 1991 and 1992.
Some parts may have been altered later but in general it is out of date,
though interesting for historical reasons. Much of the
"What is W3" section is of course still just as valid.
Tim Berners-Lee CERN
Welcome to this online seminar on
the World-Wide Web (W3). It gives
first an overview of W3 for those
to whom it is new, including a review
of the current status of software,
and then mentions some plans for
the future.
This is the text track. You might
also want to see:
What is W3?
W3 is a "distributed heterogeneous
collaborative multimedia information
system". If you don't know what that
means now, you will be the end of
the talk, even though we won't use
such vocabulary (promise).
W3 is many things: (go through them
in order)
The future
So much for the web as it is. Everything
we have seen so far is information
distributed by server managers to
clients everywhere. A next step
is the move to universal authorship,
in which everyone involved in an
area can contribute to the electronic
representation of the group knowledge.
Here are some details of the technical
plans for the future
Everything we know about W3 is available
on the web itself. If you can't
find it, either we haven't had time
to write it, or we don't know it
either, or you just haven't found
it. When you get home, pick up
the latest WWW client for you system,
install it, and use it to answer
your questions.
We hope you have found this talk
useful. If you have any suggestions
for improvements, please mail them
to me . Thank you for your time.
© 1991-3 Tim BL