WWW7 Virtual Edition -10:15 am Wednesday 15th April 1998

The Inventor of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee gave the opening keynote address to an audience of over 1200 delegates this morning.

During the address, Tim outlined his ideas about evolvability and future proofing of the Web and the Internet, he said, "Evolvability is a dream which the community is committed to and desperately needs."

He went on to outline the architechure of the web and its relationship with specifications such as HTTP, HTML, and the currently evolving XML and RDF specifications.