This is too big for the sideblog. Tim Berners Lee (Sir Tim Berners Lee to you, pissants!), the guy who invented the World Wide Web (not the Internet, that one was invented by Al Gore) has a blog. A snippet:
In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.
Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn’t demand a what you see is what you get editor. WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship.Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.
See? Blogging and wiki’s are embedded in the design and intent of the web 
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January 2nd, 2006 at 3:26 am
Yes, it was Al Gore who inveted the Internet, alright. Hehe
January 2nd, 2006 at 9:00 am
in fairness to al gore, as a congressman he did work on legislation that helped make the internet what it is today. funding for research and basic infrastructure for schools and government offices. but i doubt if he ever rolled his sleeves and hacked up the protocols