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Comment by kwamenum86 | Hacker News Reader

My favorite part is the tongue in cheek title for Tim Berner-Lee: "Web Developer". That's an understatement (as well as a perfectly accurate one).

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"Web Developer" as in "Developed the Web," I guess..

Or 'THE Web Developer'

The Original Web Developer. Should have been Web Creator though.

I think you might have missed the point.

For those who missed it: http://i.imgur.com/VKgG6.png

Maybe they should have added "The" in front of the title.

"Tim Berners-Lee - Mammal"

No seriously, TimBL should need no further title, given their audience ;)

"Tim Berners-Lee - Tim Berners-Lee"

Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

It was irony.

Glad I kept "Web Developer" in my business card all these years. Payback time

If I may digress a bit, I've always wondered why one is more inclined to say 'systems programmer' rather than 'systems developer'.

The web is constantly being developed and changing, a system does not evolve as quickly and is not in a constant state of development.

That would be my guess anyways.

I always thought that the choice of "developer" versus "programmer" swung on how multidisciplinary you had to be in order to be effective.

I completely agree. I call myself a "web developer" because that's the most accurate description of what I do. "web programmer", "software engineer", and "systems engineer" are all too narrow.

On top of programming, I also do system ops, ui design, customer service (and client service), project management. Developing a web site takes a lot more than programming, especially if the team is small.

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