Web browsers [will] soon disappear.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:A 1996 article for InfoWorld written by Bob Metcalfe discusses the idea that it is not contradictory to predit the Internet’s collapse and then argue that it is the next big thing. The article includes highlights from a World Wide Web conference held in 1995. In the article Metcalfe says the session of the conference that interested him most was one held by Berners-Lee, where he discussed his projections for the World Wide Web. Metcalfe writes: ”Three sessions interested me most … Another was Tim Berners-Lee’s projection for the Web over the next five years. Berners-Lee, creator of the Web and now director of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT (http://www.w3.org), said that Web browsers would soon disappear.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: Will Netscape Eat its Hat Over Claims it Was Too Busy for Web Conference?
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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