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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 24, 2006 @11:21PM from the 20/20-hindsight dept.

notmyopinion writes "In a wide-ranging interview with the British Computer Society, Sir Tim Berners-Lee criticizes software patents, speaks out on US and ICANN control of the Internet, proposes browser security changes, and says he got domain names backwards in web addresses all those years ago."

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Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday March 24, 2006 @11:22PM (#14992428)

It's about time he got on the web. I mean, it's like 15 years old. Everyone is on it these days.

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Looking back... (Score:4, Funny)

by m85476585 ( 884822 ) writes: on Friday March 24, 2006 @11:28PM (#14992448)

"Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance?

I would have skipped on the double slash - there's no need for it. Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http://uk.org.bcs/members [org.bcs]. The last two terms of this example could both be servers if necessary."

He could do anything differently and he would drop a slash?

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From the Article... (Score:2, Funny)

by Orrin Bloquy ( 898571 ) writes: on Friday March 24, 2006 @11:32PM (#14992460) Journal

"Slashes should have been backwards as well, you tea-smoking Vance-Baggers."

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Re:JACK ASS (Score:5, Funny)

by oberondarksoul ( 723118 ) writes: on Friday March 24, 2006 @11:32PM (#14992463) Homepage

Be nice; he invented the medium you're using to flame him... ;)

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Re:JACK ASS (Score:5, Funny)

by tha_mink ( 518151 ) writes: on Friday March 24, 2006 @11:48PM (#14992495)

Be nice; he invented the medium you're using to flame him... ;)

Doesn't make Henry Ford a good driver...

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Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @12:02AM (#14992527)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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Re:Looking back... (Score:5, Funny)

by Tatarize ( 682683 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @12:04AM (#14992531) Homepage

ech tee tee pee colon slash org dot slash dot dot org - Not as cool to say.

There is a reason for the double slash. The double slash says it's the traditional format. The single slash signifies the domain name extension should go first. In the new-Berners-Lee format...

For example.

http://slashdot.org
http:/org.slashdot

Should both be allowed addresses. They aren't. But, because he did a double slash in the beginning we could actually flip the extention order and drop the slash and it wouldn't be confused with the original format. See, Sir Tim is such a foward thinker he added a worthless slash to save the day years later!

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Re:But how could you make a jingle out of ... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @12:04AM (#14992532)

so right now i'd be reading org slash? sounds rude.

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Re:A true Brit. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @12:20AM (#14992568)

If you're going to use bookmarks, portals and search engines anyway, why not leverage them fully and make all names/identifiers collision-free cryptographic names. Trademark problem: solved permanently.

In fact, every machine on the internet could be given a unique 32 bit number. Then you could connect to it using that number as the name. That would be awesome!

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Already exists (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @12:32AM (#14992596)

It's the ".myspace.com" TLD.

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Re:But how could you make a jingle out of ... (Score:5, Funny)

by BluBrick ( 1924 ) writes: <blubrick@ g m a i l.com> on Saturday March 25, 2006 @01:07AM (#14992659) Homepage

Perhaps so, but these guys [asm.org] might be able to sell their domain name for a big ol' crapload of research funding!

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Re:JACK ASS (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @01:36AM (#14992714)

Doesn't make Henry Ford a good driver...

Maybe not, but he was a damn fine passenger.

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Re:A true Brit. (Score:3, Funny)

by emag ( 4640 ) writes: <`slashdot' `at' `gurski.org'> on Saturday March 25, 2006 @01:37AM (#14992719) Homepage

No! 32 bits is too small! We'll have to go right to...128 bits!

*gasp* 128-bits? Is that wise?

What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?

(No, I have no idea why that popped into my head)

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Do joo mean the symantec web? (Score:2, Funny)

by MikeSty ( 890569 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @01:55AM (#14992750) Homepage

That would just be so black and yellow and give everyone a warm fuzzy feeling. Only the feeling you get from, you know, knowing you're protected by Symantec and all ...

startkeylogger

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Re:But how could you make a jingle out of ... (Score:5, Funny)

by Archon-X ( 264195 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @02:52AM (#14992847)

Glad you brought that up, I've been waiting for a semi-relevant posting for years now to ask the following question: Am I the only one that reads '.org' as 'orgy'?

It's fun, it's naughty! Catholic.org! Nun.org! Starving-Panda.org! ..no, wait.

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Re:Looking back... (Score:3, Funny)

by arose ( 644256 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @03:20AM (#14992893)

org.asm.nerd

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Re:Looking back... (Score:3, Funny)

by modecx ( 130548 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @03:41AM (#14992934)

Hrmmm... Now if only we could get them to drive on the right side of the road...

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Re:Looking back... (Score:2, Funny)

by bjpirt ( 251795 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @04:25AM (#14992985)

but we do.

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Re:TLDs (Score:2, Funny)

by Tim C ( 15259 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @05:20AM (#14993039)

OMG TIM IS TOOOOOOOOO CUUTE!!!!!11!!11!!!

Aw shucks, they noticed!

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Tim Berners-Lee quote'o'matic (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @11:54AM (#14993646)

A bit of TBL fun ... "Was it not Tim Berners-Lee who said..." [splintered.co.uk]

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Re:Looking back... (Score:2, Funny)

by amw ( 636271 ) writes: on Saturday March 25, 2006 @09:12PM (#14995781) Homepage

Its all part of the plan to confound foreign terrorists trying to drive here.

Driving on the wrong side of the road helps, as well.

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