# The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Ian Ritchie
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ian_ritchie_the_day_i_turned_down_tim_berners_lee)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ian_ritchie_the_day_i_turned_down_tim_berners_lee/26621da45429), 6 min (TED's player)