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Full Circle In Sight As Inventor Of The World Wide Web Signs Up For Twitter

by jaredwestfall on Oct.23, 2009, under Randomness

Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, credited for inventing this little thing called the World Wide Web, has signed up for Twitter in a move that could potentially rip a hole in the time/space continuum.

The British computer scientist, engineer and MIT professor apparently got on Twitter yesterday just before he entered into a conversation with Tim O’Reilly on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit.

The man uses Tweetie and thinks either the app or the Twitter website has a confusing user interface. Since Berners-Lee is also the Director of Web standards organization World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), that’s telling.

(Hat tip to Tom Raftery)

Tim Berners-Lee image

Website: w3c.org

graduate of Oxford University, England, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web… Learn More

Twitter image

Website: twitter.com
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Founded: March 21, 2006
Funding: $155M

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006… Learn More

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