Berners-Lee: Donât use the old internet, Iâve made a new one, opening Tuesday
The man credited with inventing the internet has disowned what he calls âa first stab at itâ and urged people to wait till next week, to experience âa completely new much better one.â âIâve got together with James Dyson on this one, and itâs a little cracker,â he told âWhich?â magazine. â Iâm just putting the finishing touches to it and I reckon itâll be done Wednesday, tops. Iâm really sorry about the first one. If Iâd known about the pornography, the spying, the destruction of the music industry and Louise Mensch, I wouldnât have gone ahead.â Berners Leeâs new internet will, he says, be easier and safer to use and available in more colours than the current version, which he says he will âswitch offâ the week after next. Very few people know that when I invented the internet, I invented a little failsafe gizmo just underneath it so I could turn it off if it went wrong. Well it has. I just press control altâ¦ wait a minute, Iâd better not say. My advice is to back everything up. But not now.â Meanwhile Microsoft have announced they are also launching Internet 2.0 which requires the replacement of every single computer, modem and router in the world and the complete global re-wiring of the entire communications network.Â  This will be followed soon after by the launch of Interent 2.1 to fix the bugs and make people feel vaguely paranoid about having to accept the terms and conditions.