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Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html
June 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
saekitominaga.fedibird.com.ap.brid.gy
Links and Law https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkMyths.html

Tim Berners-Lee による「リンク」に関する文献、日付は1997年のままだけれどもいつの間にか追記されていた。
日経新聞がディープリンクに損害賠償を請求しうるとして話題になった件まで晒さ……紹介されている。
Links and Law
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May 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy
Does anybody happen to know if there's a clearly licensed photograph of the 5-star open data mug available somewhere? It's a bit ironic that this iconic object advocating for open data is maybe itself not unabiguously open (https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html)
May 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
thestatmonkey.bsky.social
When you settle on a logo but cant find just the right font....and I have like 1k fonts collected over the years dating back to AOL days l...and none of them "hit right"

#creativeproblems #fonts #designissues
April 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM
gabrielsnyder.com
Stumbled over @timbl.bsky.social’s “Brief History of the World Wide Web” which a hilarious title because it was written in 1994, which is well before anyone had ever used a web browser, but still four years after he started working on it.

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
WWW Book - History
www.w3.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:44 AM
emgeekay.bsky.social
Also, here is Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, sharing his thoughts on linked data:

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Linked Data - Design Issues
www.w3.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
@timbl's
Design Issues for the World Wide Web
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/
Design Issues for the World Wide Web
www.w3.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:58 AM
mrmts.mstdn.mrmts.com.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.irohanano.nl/@iroha_nano145/115892955907546644

「30年前からこんにちわ」の世界やなあ。

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkMyths.html
mastodon.irohanano.nl
January 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
jauntywunderkind.bsky.social
i really like the idea of MCP's that expose and talk about resources. having practical references is cool and amazing! know what we are talking about! article of faith:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

but in LLM practice:
i really have no flipping idea what this is about,
how it works,
what it is for.
Univeral Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web architecture
www.w3.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
jauntywunderkind.bsky.social
i really hope the 'web' culture of 90's/aughts can better evince itself in the future. the hyperlink to me defines this hypermedia, let's us as we talk expose & make available the material that we refer to.

Tim Berners-Lee's Axioms of the Web is a high humanist document:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Univeral Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web architecture
www.w3.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
@chrysn @jyasskin indeed, “memento” points from an original resource to a snapshot thereof, whereas “original” points from a snapshot of a resource the original. In Tim BL’s terminology, the original resource is a “time generic” resource https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Generic.html
Generic Resources
www.w3.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
tgoerke.bsky.social
Idea to name our vocational training AI assistent: Charlie.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
que.one
Personal LLMs are the future, but we need to rally for standards that protect our privacy and security. We already have good ideas on how to achieve this => www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
que.one
And we already have the technical foundation to tackle the privacy/security aspects of this, as per Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW -> www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
nickbuckmaster.bsky.social
Excellent interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on #Leading podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... The diagram mentioned can be found here www.w3.org/DesignIssues... #TRIP
The Man Who Invented The World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee)
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 14/09/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
absolutelyahha.bsky.social
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
September 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
lauriewired.bsky.social
Purposefully constraining yourself to the Principle of Least Power reduces the attack surface and opens up huge data analysis capabilities later.



Every programmer should take a look at Tim Burners-Lee article.

Written in 1998, but still insanely relevant today:

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
July 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
joelanman.com
what are some good, successful examples of linked data?

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
harrykingdon.bsky.social
I love this from @timbl.bsky.social www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Vision of a new World - Design Issues
www.w3.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
fasterandworse.com
look, I would have lost my mind long ago if I invented the web, but this bit from TBL is a weird trip www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

this para made my chin and eyebrows move in opposite directions 😬
Could such a system actually take over? Of course it couldn't. When your system is a corporation, then it has to have people involved, human employees. And so the moment it strays from the straight and narrow path and does anything questionably moral, let alone evil, then the people, having an ethical core, and an independent sense of right, immediately raise the alarm. They pull the emergency brake. You can't have a company doing bad things, because companies are made of people, and people are individually responsible. You never could have a whole company -- let a lone a big one -- actually become dishonest, without the people just stopping it. Unless of course it is a cigarette company, I suppose, unless it is a tobacco company, or perhaps an energy company, or a pharmaceutical company --but in general, you can rely on the humanity and ethics of the employees to keep the corporation away from evil, even when the profit motive works the other way.
March 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
pfin25.bsky.social
Good to see but strangely no mention of W3C or Berners-Lee's @timbl.bsky.social Solid Protocol: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
March 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
johnlarge.co.uk
A good article from Tim Berners-Lee at the w3c about social media and the future of platforms. Takes me back to my uni days in the early 00s. We had w3c standards drummed into us. I always keep up with their work now.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
johnlarge.co.uk
A good article from Tim Berners-Lee at the w3c about social media and the future of platforms. Takes me back to my uni days in the early 00s. We had w3c standards drummed into us. I always keep up with their work now.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
Excellent post on design considerations in HTTP*S* everywhere, by @timberners_lee: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html
February 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
cristodcgomez.dev
No había visto que el punto de vista que llevo defendiendo desde hace años sobre como deberían ser las redes sociales son las mismas que defiende también un tal Tim Berners-Lee (solo es el padre de internet, poca cosa)

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
The Dysfunction of Social Networks - Design Issues - Tim Berners-Lee
www.w3.org
February 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM