Google suit disagrees with inventor of the Web, loses

Nick Douglas — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:30:00 EDT

It wasn't exactly a smackdown, but it didn't help Google exec Peter Norvig to challenge Tim Berners-Lee in a discussion on the Semantic Web. (The Semantic Web, by the way, is the Web 2.0 of four years ago.)

See, when you're head-to-head with TeeBeeLee (Tim's preferred gangster name), it's not about the topic at hand. It's about who's more awesome. Namely, TeeBeeLee is more awesome.

Again, this is the man who starts blog entries with "When I invented the Web..." After that, who cares what he says?

If Google wants to send someone to debate — or even have a slightly conflicting opinion with — the inventor of the Web, they can send one man: Vint Cerf, who basically invented the Internet. Now that'd be an epic battle.

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee [CNET]

"When I invented the Web" is how Tim opens all his conversations

Nick Douglas — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:49:23 EDT

Can someone show Internet god Tim Berners-Lee a video of that Brian Regan comedy routine? You know, the one about how Buzz Aldrin can walk into any conversation full of blowhards and say, "Yyyyyeah, that's a great story. So this one day, I was walking on the moon..."

Because it looks like TeeBeeLee picked up that trick. Amid much bloghuffery, he opens a reasoned blog post with:

When I invented the Web,

Smart move on Tim's part — when he pulls out that cred, everyone knows Tim means business.

Net Neutrality: This is serious [Tim Berners-Lee]

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Google suit disagrees with inventor of the Web, loses

"When I invented the Web" is how Tim opens all his conversations