Shortly I’ll be heading off to the Science Museum in London to watch a talk by the inventor of the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The talk is on The Web Revealed and is part of the Science Museum’s Centenary Talks. Unsurprisingly it’s turned out to be a very popular event and completely sold out.
Earlier, I asked my Twitter followers for questions to pose to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and so far had some great, if very funny, ones! Here are a few:
- @Walkerama asked: Can you have a word with Microsoft about IE6?
- @DavidWilcock asked: The Internet has brought porn to the masses, do you feel this makes you one of THE great social pioneers?
- @wallglamour asked: you could ask him if the Grid really does exist or are we doomed just to have 24mb download speed.
- Anon asked: What kind of idiot decided that mixing semantic tags (quotes etc) with visual styles (colors, sizes etc) was a good design choice for HTML?
I’m not sure I can ask all of those without being subtly ejected from the talk, but I will certainly do my best! I personally, am intrigued by his apparent dislike of Microsoft as suggested in his online biography.
If you have any more you’d like to suggest, please leave a comment as I will check during the talk. I also hope to keep you updated by tweeting any interesting points.
