They helped design the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially computer. Burners-Lee is dedicated to making the emerging properties of WWW both benign and with a minimal degree of order. As director of the Web, he brings together its members, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Apple, IBM, and 155 others, and tries to obtain consensus on technical standards in the evolving software market. The test is to keep widely respected standard HTML 3.2 which eases travel on the Web universal. Proposed also is PICS, Platform for Internet Content Selection, to let parents filter out offending Websites.
None have the effect of law, and compliance is voluntary.
It allowed him to fill a document with words, which would lead him to another document for answers. If these dangling links could be retained even though the document was deleted, the systems could be made worldwide. Messy, but essential.