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Robert Cailliau
Belgian
Scientist
Born:
Jan 26
,
1947
Because
Calm
Facebook
Great
Will
You
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When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
Robert Cailliau
Great
Humanity
Problems
Will
Solving
Faces
Data
Online
Many
Prerequisite
Humankind
Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.
Robert Cailliau
Characters
See
Perceive
Colors
Because
Green
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
Robert Cailliau
Today
You
Word
Giving
Somewhere
Else
Definition
See
Some
More
Somewhere Else
Computer
Simplest
Takes
Like
Know
Click
Method
Text
Links
Blue
Depth
Explore
Help
Letting
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
Robert Cailliau
You
Facebook
Impossible
Will
Sign
Destroyed
Trace
Always
Up
Account
Want
Keep
I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.
Robert Cailliau
Death
You
Soul
Facebook
Try
Will
Twitter
Punished
Out
Systems
Religions
See
Some
Like
Because
Go
Nor
LinkedIn
Get
Any
Just
Where
Them
Your
Suck
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
Robert Cailliau
Time
Calm
Community
Down
Chaos
Meltdown
System
Would
Would-Be
Total
Net
Civilized
Catastrophe
Alternative
Calm Down
Becomes
May
Middle
Now
The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.
Robert Cailliau
You
On-Line
TV
Windows
Net
Given
Most
Attract
Advertising
Forced
Providers
Times
Screen
Influence
Want
Information
Which
Us
Useless
Download
Need
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
Robert Cailliau
Me
Google
Despite
Still
Surprise
Sites
Biggest
Biggest Surprise
Explosion
Functions
Number
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