On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.
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I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.Tim Berners-Lee
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
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The original idea of the Web was about supporting the way people already work socially, but this doesn't happen with a lot of IT projects.
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
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