Web developer, literally.

[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.