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Berners-Lee, creador de la World Wide Web, en el Museo de la Historia de
la Informtica, en Silicon Valley. R. J. C.
I wanted to reframe the way we use information, the way we work together.
Such was the kernel of an idea from one Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer
working at CERN back in the 1980s. Working on this idea was a side project for
Berners-Lee, one dubbed vague but exciting by his boss at the time. Yet today,
the results of the experiment turn 20 years old. As his former employer puts it, On
30 April 1993, CERN published a statement making W3 technology available on a
royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish. Thats a very less-than-vague
achievement we should all take a moment to celebrate.
In 2009, Berners-Lee gave a TED Talk in which he described some of the history of
developing the web, and detailed some of his ideas for what might happen next. He
essentially documents principles of innovation that hold as true today as they did
back when he was experimenting with his radical idea of web-style interoperability,
and theyre certainly worth any would-be entrepreneur thinking about in the go-go
bubble days of the current tech climate. Innovation, it turns out, is often very less
than the result of a Eureka moment of genius insight. Instead, its the result of hard
work and deep application.
Here, some lessons from Berners-Lee and his twenty-something baby, the World
Wide Web.
1. Harness Your Own Frustration
Berners-Lee was annoyed that he couldnt collaborate easily and seamlessly with
the many colleagues who came through CERNs doors, each one clutching
potentially valuable insights and information locked away behind a ton of different
formats. He became obsessed with wanting to figure out a way to develop a system
to break this problem once and for all. Focusing on solving an actual tangible issue
provides a solid foundation for unlocking true innovation potential, yet its one that
many founders too often seem to overlook. For Berners-Lee, the potential was in
the solution it would afford him personally, not in developing a particular technology
per se.
2. Involve Others Early
In fact, Berners-Lee is explicit about his focus. The most exciting thing was not the
technology but the community and spirit of people getting together, he says. Its a
philosophy echoed by a fellow Internet pioneer, Danny Hillis, who described the
close-knit spirit of early experimentation in a talk given at TED2013. (Watch the talk
below, and docheck out his copy of the ARPANET Directory, which included the
names and addresses of everyone with an email address in 1982.)
This idea holds particularly true in our age of launch first, re-launch often. The
point: find your people and figure out how to harness their ideas and input. The
web has enabled people from all sorts of locations and backgrounds to connect;
theres simply no excuse for existing in a lone bubble.
3. Dont Stop
You might think that if you were responsible for launching the World Wide Web, you
could kick back, pop open the champagne, and watch the praise and plaudits roll
in. Not Berners-Lee. Whats inspiring about his 2009 TED Talk is the passion he
clearly shows for his latest project, linked data. Its clear that hes proud of his baby,
now leaving its teen years and entering adulthood. But its also apparent that he
feels the conditions are ripe for new invention. His frustration at the walled gardens
that have taken over the web (see 1), his excitement at persuading people to
provide sources of data (see 2), and his clear drive and excitement at what might
be next (see, um, 3) make it clear. We aint seen nothing yet
Cmo puedes saber si eres un alumno adecuado para este curso? No es muy
cientfico, en realidad es un pequeo juego, pero vamos a realizar lo siguiente.
Lee el artculo El lmite de las mquinas no es su potencia, sino nuestra
imaginacin que se public en el peridico El Pas recientemente
(28/10/2014). A continuacin realiza la siguiente actividad.
S, el inventor de la Web.
S, un familiar lejano de Bruce Lee.
No.
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S.
No.
No lo s.
Qu es la World Wide Web?
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S.
No.
Qu es un protocolo?
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S.
No.
No lo s.
Qu es un lenguaje de programacin? Qu es HTML?
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S.
No.
No lo recuerdo, puede ser.
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Netscape.
Navigator.
Explorer.
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06:00 H.
Llevaba bastante tiempo dndole vueltas al asunto. Tena que haber una
forma ms fcil y eficiente de llevar a cabo su trabajo. Y si no la haba, la
inventara. Al final, todo es cuestin de remangarse y ponerse a ello.
Estamos en marzo de 1989 y el escenario es el CERN, el laboratorio de
la Organizacin Europea para la Investigacin Nuclear. El protagonista
de nuestra historia es Tim Berners-Lee, encargado de sistemas
informticos (aunque fsico de formacin, disciplina en la que se haba
graduado por la Universidad de Oxford) en la treintena responsable de
que los cientficos del centro y los que venan de fuera pudiesen trabajar
conjuntamente a pesar de que sus ordenadores no utilizasen los mismos
sistemas ni se comunicasen entre s, como hacen ahora.
Era un autntico problema para el CERN acoplar todos esos
ordenadores incompatibles, que adems tenan que funcionar dentro del
sistema con el que funcionaba el acelerador de partculas del
laboratorio, cuenta Mark Mischetti, editor de Scientific American y
coautor junto al propio Berners-Lee de un anlisis de su invento, la World
Wide Web, con ocasin de su dcimo aniversario. La mayor parte del
tiempo de Berners-Lee se iba en esta tarea, as que Tim pens que
sera mucho ms sencillo si los ordenadores pudieran intercambiar
informacin directamente.
El
Actividad
1. Dnde trabajaba Tim Berners-Lee cuando desarroll su idea que se convirti en la Web?
Apple.
CERN.
Google.
Microsoft.
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2. Cuanto tiempo pas desde que Tim Berners-Lee crease su informe a que se desarrollase
el primer servidor, navegador y pagina web?
Unos pocos das.
Unos pocos meses.
Algo mas de un ao.
Casi cinco aos.
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