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The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee

Ian Ritchie · TED

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About

Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And ... he didn't buy it. A short story about information, connectivity and learning from mistakes.

The talk

  1. The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee 6 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2011
Speaker
Ian Ritchie
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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