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Robert Cailliau Biography

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Robert Cailliau is a renowned scientist from the Netherlands, born on January 26, 1947. He played a significant role in the development of the internet and was one of the early developers of the World Wide Web.

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“At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.”

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“Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.”

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“If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.”

Ifs Want Impossible Accounts Destroyed

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“To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.”

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“I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.”

Ifs Pay Minutes Willing Reader Economics Controlled Advertisers

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“If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.”

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“Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.”

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“The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.”

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“The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.”

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“There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.”

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“We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.”

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“What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.”

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Author:Robert Cailliau

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Born: January 26, 1947
Known for: Scientist
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