What would you ask Tim Berners-Lee?

Why do people still say “back-slash” when reading Web addresses?

What does he think about OpenAjax – where over 100 top companies are working together to promote an open standard or Open Ajax including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Mozilla, Adobe, Dojo, and W3C.

Also could he compare XML to JSON for client side nad possible use on the server.

More importantly, where does he stand on the proposal for new JavaScript 2 / Ecmascript 4 ? There is a lot of heat about this, I would love to hear his input on the matter.

How would he like to be remembered?

What would I ask him?
How are we going to get rid of this?: “http://”

How would you design a protocol for web applications that would have the reach of HTTP?

in the spirit of Brendan’s question, why “double-u-double-u-double-u”?

berners-lee is responsible for at once the most impactful technology invention of our lifetimes ~and the most awkward and wasteful product name in the history of man.

How similar do you think you are to Alfred Nobel, he created dynamite and you created WWW, both of which became more of a vice than real use?

Considering that the majority of traffic on the web is SPAM and P2P illegal file sharing, what would he’d done differently to prevent this?

Technologies like javascript and dhtml have been around for a long time but there full potential was not realized until the “web 2.0″ time.

What is the next big technology that is under-estimated and miss-understood?

I’m curious about his take on web privacy issues – potential for misuse/totalitarian state, etc.

The Web, is it everything you hoped for so far? What are your biggest hopes and fears for the web in the next 10 years?

Is the web essentially dead? And if so, what’s next? If not, why does it seem nearly dead?

How do you see the emergence of a web operating system, and with it the ownership of the web infrastructure by just a few technology conglomerates?

Why are you almost entirely irrelevant to the modern web?

What is he working on now?

Name five things you would change if you had it to do all over again.

“Tim-

Why didn’t you tell me about this web thing? How’s your Mom?”

Thanks, Jason M. Blumer

Do we keep tweaking/adding/repurposing the current internet or do we start from scratch and build a new shiny bells and whistles internet? Is the ‘wild-west free-for-all nature’ of the internet here to stay or will it become ever more regulated/sanitized/controlled?

38mm or 40mm ball? Where does he stand…

Does he actually use OM after his name now? Yet another good reason for 1776.

How can we get (inspire) IE, Firefox, and Safari to get along?

My question would be:
1)What would life be without you inventing the html/ world wide web??
2)Do you like what the internet has become?
3)What are some ways you want to do but cannot to improve your ideas for the web?
4)Who is your celeberity crush?
5)Any questions? or commments?

that is a good one christy….

Well, too late to ask, but my question would involve what he thinks of XCode versus NeXTSTEP.

Had he ever read any of the works of Theodor “Ted” Nelson (only the frikkin guy who envisioned the WWW — but better, and who created the text “hypertext.”) And if so, shouldn’t he *mention* that damned genius a few times?!

I would want to know how he invented the web. It’s weird, really, because the internet is made of many different servers from many different places. How can the internet possibly be invented? You would have to create one big server or several servers. Where exactly is the internet located?