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Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Adiscamanja: 10:08am On Dec 26, 2017 |
Tim Berners-Lee is a name that almost no one in America recognizes. He invented the World Wide Web almost single-handedly and that’snot even the most amazing aspect of his life. Inventing the World Wide Web would conservatively make anyone with even some business sense a billionaire, and someone who truly maintained ownership of it and rented access, domain names and the ability to traffic information through it could have theoretically become a trillionaire. Tim Berners-Lee chose instead to give the innovation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the World Wide Web to society with no strings attached. The inventor of the World Wide Web Here are three ways Tim Berners-Lee could have become the wealthiest person in the World by a factor of more than 10. Source: http://ameboloaded.com/meet-tim-berners-lee-the-man-who-invented-worldwideweb-and-would-have-been-a-trillionaire-but-decided-that-we-all-should-use-it-for-free/ 3 Likes
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Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by So101: 10:16am On Dec 26, 2017 |
Maybe he doesn’t like money like Amaechi lol 23 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by psalmson001: 10:47am On Dec 26, 2017 |
Well, tho they say its not always all about the money.............but omo, owo ni koko o. 4 Likes |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by ddjay: 10:58am On Dec 26, 2017 |
Mtcheew, u make sumtin kon dash people, now u come dey form broke.na u knw abeg, mtcheew 1 Like |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by SmallmebigGod: 12:24pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
True . but he might really not get it commercialized successfully . Seun has done well with Nairaland, but you will all agree that the amount of business deal going on on Nairaland without his knowledge will be so much that if he charge a percentage for every successful deal, he will be among worlds richest. I'm sure this man to made some money , but his invention outgrows him 14 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Nobody: 12:44pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
ddjay:Don't mind the OP, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is worth $50 million and is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a senior researcher at MIT. So the man is definitely not broke. 49 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by anibirelawal(m): 12:57pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
He is a LIVING LEGEND. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by goggleit: 1:02pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
His not a Nigerian politician 1 Like |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by lanre316: 1:10pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
He might not be rich like owners of Internet business giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon. But he's definitely not poor. I heard sometimes ago that Google gave him a huge amount of gift in cash honoring his works on invention of the Internet. He's definitely not broke. Nigerian bloggers can fabricate any lies to generate traffic to their websites 28 Likes |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Nobody: 1:16pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
His invention outgrew him because he isn't so smart at the business. If Mark Zuckerberg or Google founders invented it,there's no way they'll not be trillionaires 1 Like |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by johnydon22(m): 2:16pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Lorhdany: If you consider what he would have made as the inventor of the internet to $50m, I think you'd understand the OP's point. 1 Like |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by kode12: 2:25pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Monetisation of certain forms of technologies could actually stifle their growth. That is why the most popular forms of technology today run on open source platforms and that's really,the future of the techworld today. As example looks at Android, Linux, Apache,Bitcoins, MP3 etc etc. 6 Likes |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by lanre316: 3:03pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
johnydon22: Guess what! If he didn't do what he did, internet won't have grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry it is. Nobody would make billions on it and there won't be Facebook or Google. He would have stifled the great invention and another generous soul will do something better and open source it and make Tim's invention useless. We should just be grateful for this man's big heart and stop talking as if he made a mistake with open-sourcing the Internet. Afterall he's not crying and regretting his actions and very few people in the world make 50 million dollars before their fulfilling lives come to an end. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by boliswitpassprik(m): 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
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Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Pyrusdrago(m): 4:37pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
He's a noble man And please the dude isn't poor 2 Likes |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Nobody: 4:46pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
johnydon22:I think the OP wants us to believe that he's very broke like Eboue's kind of broke. A net worth of $50M is a lot, the man is very wealthy. 4 Likes |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by samodan(m): 5:15pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Na this man OP dey call broke OP needs help 3 Likes
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Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Premiumwriter: 5:22pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Op is definitely on weed. Just because he's not in the news definitely doesn't mean he's poor. Even if he's broke, help will never be far away from him - never. 1 Like |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Exjoker(m): 6:04pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
OP made it look like the man is dime broke and regretting his action. If he had made the internet free, the internet industry wouldn't have boom like it is now or someone or an organization would have created an alternative for free. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by pcicero(m): 8:12pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
So, it wasn't Philip Emeagwali that invented the internet? Where are the chestbeaters? 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by KendrickAyomide: 8:41pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Lorhdany:thanks for schooling me |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by daryoor(m): 9:30pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
world wide web is not same as the internet. there are other lines of communication that uses the internet thats not through the web. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by maasoap(m): 9:58pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
johnydon22:So, someone with 50 million dollars is considered broke just because he'd could have made more than that if he had desired it. He's not broke because he didn't have more than that in the past. Poor should have been a better word, definitely not broke. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by dreamworld: 11:01pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
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Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by lanre316: 11:15pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
maasoap: I dont know why people will call someone with 50 million dollars(not naira o) poor. If that is the case, then anyone who is not in the top100 richest is also poor. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by fibonacci2526: 11:35pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
OP do your research before posting trips. He is isn't broke, you literally took a 2012 article and made it yours. What a joke. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by Dollarship(m): 11:37pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Do not post fake information on NL THREAD CLOSED |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by blingxx(m): 11:38pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
anibirelawal:No he's a big fool... Even his generation will swear for him |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by IAmSkinny: 11:39pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
Adiscamanja:You need an Oscar for your bloody lies. He is not broke and why are you making it look like he is American? Dude is an English fellow. |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by ducturay(m): 11:40pm On Dec 26, 2017 |
[color=#000099][/color]someone worth over 40 million dollars your calling broke my dear, if you don't have what to post them shut the fxxk up ![]() my dear, if you don't have what to post them shut the fxx up |
Re: Meet The Man Who Invented The Internet For Free, Now He Is Broke by lanre316: 12:23am On Dec 27, 2017 |
blingxx: A man who invented the internet and decided to bless humanity with it is a fool. Just because he didn't have more than 50million dollars. Na wao. We Africans and our mentality sha. Na real wa o. |
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