
The world wide web is one of the most astonishing inventions in human history, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee is justifiably proud of his creation. Now used by 5.5bn people, the web has become an indispensable technology for global connectivity and creativity that has been seamlessly woven into our lives. It is hard to imagine how we would function without access to more than 1bn websites, search engines, ecommerce, social networks, podcasts and — Berners-Lee’s favourite online resource — Wikipedia.
萬維網是人類歷史上最令人驚嘆的發明之一,蒂姆?伯納斯-李爵士理所當然為自己的創造感到自豪。如今已有55億人在使用它,網絡已成為不可或缺的全球互聯與創造力技術,并無縫融入我們的生活。很難想象,如果無法訪問超過10億個網站、搜索引擎、電商、社交網絡、播客,以及——伯納斯-李最喜歡的在線資源——維基百科,我們會如何運轉。