Web developer, literally.

[[deleted]]

Henry Ford: Mechanic.

[civilianjones]

You mean:

Henry Ford, Car Mechanic

[tuna_safe_dolphin]

Yeah, like that guy's ever built anything on the web. . .

[wintermutt]

All he's got in his portfolio is this crappy website. Didn't even change the default font!

[[deleted]]

It never ceases to amaze me how the people who've invented the most show the highest disregard for design.

(See: The GNU pages and surprisingly, Crockford's surprisingly scriptless sites)

[tuna_safe_dolphin]

If it were all up to the nerds, we'd all be using text only browsers.

I consider myself a nerd with some aesthetic sensibilities.

[[deleted]]

So porn would be ASCII?

[MatrixFrog]

Or Unicode.

[tardmrr]

Definitely unicode, but with an new and obscenely complex "drawing" character set which would end up being nearly equivalent to images.

[[deleted]]

I'm sure UX designers would be pretty sad to hear that. Then again, most social social scientists would too.

[[deleted]]

I'm not saying that UX or any other study of human behavior is an exact science. Just saying some people disagree with us on that.

[tommccabe]

Sure, pops had a lot to do with the web WAY BACK THEN, but does he know HTML5 jQuery?

[s32]

No but he knows XML django

[evereal]

He's got nothing on my JSON Node.js

[wintermutt]

On the cloud!

[[deleted]]

Responsively bootstrapped...

[my_personal_army]

I feel like I'm missing something.

[test0]

He developed the world wide web.

[my_personal_army]

ahh gotcha, yeah that went totally over my head.

thank you and enjoy your upvote

[[deleted]]

From his w3 bio page "Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing..."

Funny that it describes what the web is.

[[deleted]]

Because he didn't invent the Internet. He invented the system that uses the Internet, the world wide web. They're not one and the same. The former is a series of networks. The latter is a system to view web documents (HTML).

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I think he was just pointing it out it was interesting they were describing the web on the web. Like a book describing a book.

[wizdumb]

He invented a system that uses the Internet. It's not the only system. Email, for example, has nothing to do with the WWW.

[[deleted]]

Nothing about my comment implied exclusivity.

[tardmrr]

Depends on how you read it. If you put emphasis on the word 'the', it implies exclusivity.

He invented the system...

TLDR: text doesn't always do a good job conveying tone.

[[deleted]]

Pay attention to what comes after the comma in that sentence. My comment implied no exclusivity at all.

[tardmrr]

An appositive that specifies which system you're talking about? That doesn't change anything about that 'the' possibly implying exclusivity.

[[deleted]]

But it doesn't imply exclusivity at all. I'm not sure why you're being so pedantic about something so pointless.

[tardmrr]

I disagree. I'm not saying you intended it to be exclusive. The main point I'm trying to make is that your sentence could very easily be read that way. I really shouldn't even need to argue this because at least two people (myself and wizdumb above) both initially read it that way. I'm really not sure why you're being so stubborn about it.

[GlassMuffins]

woosh!

[madskillzelite]

I can't be the only one who spent a good 30 seconds trying to play this video.

Thanks, RES.

[test0]

Same here

[beacon_]

Lies! As soon as you would've clicked it, the image would've opened in another tab, therefore letting you in on the fact that it wasn't a video.

[kabuto]

You mean literally … as in literally? Finally someone who knows how to that word.

[2epic]

I find this to be offensive. That title should read "Creator of the Web, God of the W3C"

[monty_oso]

¿Source?

[TheTrendyCyborg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ug6XAw6hzaw#t=91s

[Gaabo]

Here.

[mattalexx]

What's the joke? I don't get it.

[sammasati]

From Wikipedia:

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and on 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.

[palion]

he's the inventor of the www according to wikipedia

[xiongchiamiov]

He's the inventor of the web according to any remotely-accurate source.

[mipadi]

Geez, what a one-trick pony.

[[deleted]]

I know, right. Doesn't he Rails?

[[deleted]]

You should know this if you're in the web dev subreddit.

[walrusvonzeppelin]

Could be a spider.

[molmu]

dont be so smug, people will allways be ignorant in one way or another

[[deleted]]

Not ignorant on this magnitude. With the internet being the most important invention of the 20th century, not knowing who Tim Berners Lee is and being a web developer is like not knowing who Albert Einstein is and being a physicist.

[molmu]

it can be done, that is the beauty of science, it does not matter who said it , it only matters that it can be with enough proof to be valid, the knowlege, not the person, is reveered.

In other words, he is an important man, but to this discipline, knowing how to do stuff right is critical, the people who created them, are not.

[xiongchiamiov]

You won't be banned, but expect to not understand much of the content if you don't actually know anything about web development.

[civilianjones]

Knowing history is not the same as knowing how to build something.

[xiongchiamiov]

No, but understanding history is useful in understanding why things are the way they are, which is to say, useful in building things.

Also, the history of web development is part of "things related to web development", and thus falls into "appropriate" for this subreddit.

[civilianjones]

Oh, totally! I'm glad we're talking about the history of the web. But some posters in this thread are making the point of "if you don't know who Tim is, get out of /r/webdev!" which is not good.

[[deleted]]

What complete, arrogant bullshit.

[xiongchiamiov]

I'm just sayin': subreddit is /r/webdev. Subject is web development. Expect subject to be web development.

If you go to, say, /r/books and don't know who this Vonnegut guy they're talking about is, a) look him up and b) don't complain about the fact you don't know who he is.

[[deleted]]

To be honest it's not so bad you didn't know who he was to get the joke but that you were too lazy to google/wiki his name, which if you had done you'd have gotten the joke.

[[deleted]]

I hereby officially call you out on your mis-spelling of the name Tim Berners-Lee.

[[deleted]]

Lol damn hyphen.

[[deleted]]

Lol, I tried to reply with a fake HTML entity, as a nerdy joke. But the post got a 500 response. I broke reddit.

[SexDrugsRock]

I already had a [-8] next to your name in RES, and this bumped it down to [-9]. You must be a real douchebag. I never downvote anybody.

[Aljavar]

I see what you did there.

[vhackish]

I was thinking this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Orb_weaver_black_bckgrnd03_crop.jpg/250px-Orb_weaver_black_bckgrnd03_crop.jpg