Ted Nelson Quotes

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

World Wide Web: Proposal for a HyperText Project

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they're still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that's great!

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

I don't understand the interweb.

I invented the Internet.

In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

Using the HTTP protocol, computer scientists around the world began making the Internet easier to navigate by inventing point-and-click browsers. One browser in particular, called Mosaic, created in 1993 at the University of Illinois, would help popularize the Web, and therefore the Net, as no software tool had yet done.

We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.

We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.