class_A

Good to see a Knighthood for TBL. In case you don't know, he was born in London, went on to develop HTML, HTTP and the first browser (and therefore the World Wide Web) and now heads the W3C at MIT.

A very worthy receipient IMHO, there wouldn't be a Scoobynet without him

Note: This is not the thread to debate awards to other persons or teams...

markr1963

If it wasn't for TBL I'd have to do some work

Good that his work has finally been recognised

Mark

jason4656

i think you might find that Marc Andreessen developed the first ever browser, mosaic. TBL did play his part in the development of the net and html however he didnt make the first browser.

class_A

NCSA Mosaic was the first browser to support graphics, but TBL's WorldWideWeb on his NeXT was the first HTML parsing browser.

Mosaic is obviously what most people used, and was the first in the generation of "multimedia" web browsers. Marc Andreessen and others went on to develop Netscape and the rest is history...

Edited to add source:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/basic/fbrowser.html

[Edited by class_A - 12/31/2003 11:22:16 AM]

jason4656

i think that is what i just said? but thanks for clarifying it

class_A

I was just trying to clarify the point that TBL took all of the ideas around at the time, sat down, fitted them all together and wrote a solution: HTTP, HTML and HTML parsing. Some people confuse the WWW with the Internet and aren't sure what Tim did or that he did it alone.

Mosaic was a huge step forward in its own right but followed Tim's work, that's all I was trying to say (probably poorly as usual)


[Edited by class_A - 12/31/2003 12:35:30 PM]

jason4656

i was just clarifying the point of who made the first browser, although what you had said about TBL is correct, he didnt in fact make the first browser. But he did develop the www, http, html as we know it, I only know as i have just written a paper which got me a distinction on the history and development of ecommerce, i wouldnt have had a clue 6 months ago, even though i have worked in ecommerce for over 5 years lol

Ian Griffiths

Worthy recognition, good stuff.