I have always enjoyed reading or watching stories of remarkable individuals, the ordinary to the extraordinary, the impossible to the possible because it inspires me. Stories that bring us optimism, hope and courage. Sometimes, seeing is believing and when a spark is ignited within us, we learn and grow within ourselves that our ability to respond is limitless.
I thought what would be more apt than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web that has made information sharing possible from wherever we are in the world.
Sir Tim was a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland where scientists came from all over the world to use its accelerators, but he observed how they were having difficulty sharing information. He realised the potential of sharing information by exploiting an emerging technology called hypertext (the system that allows you to click on links and open other webpages). He also recognised that its true potential would be brought to life only if anyone anywhere could use it without paying a fee or having to ask for permission.
“You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
In 1994, Tim moved from CERN to MIT to form the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community devoted to developing open web standards. It sparked a global wave of creativity, collaboration and innovation never seen before.
He remains the Director of W3C to this day.
Our ability to respond is limitless. #LimitlessResponseAbility #Inspire
For further reading, visit:https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
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