The World Wide Web’s creator explains why he gave it for free and his regret

Tim Berners-Lee wanted the world wide web to spur global collaboration. Tech platforms have, instead, turned it into a data ...
Tech Times

World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Reflects on the Internet's Evolution: Was It Really Free?

Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, reflects on how his original vision for a free and open internet has been undermined ...
The New Yorker

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his recently ...
Live Science

World Wide Web: Definition, history and facts

Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel. The network was complicated and, although it was possible to share files ...
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The World Wide Web Turns 30

Worldwide Web Day honors the profound impact of this groundbreaking invention that connects people worldwide and shapes our digital age. The World Wide Web (WWW), an integral part of modern life, ...
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Here Comes the World-Wide Web of Everything

When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected together an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. HTML, hypertext markup language, ...
Popular Science

On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On August 6, 1991, in a little-known newsgroup–an early-days ...
PC Gamer

The World Wide Web was released to the public 30 years ago. Feel old yet?

April 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the moment the World Wide Web was handed to humanity, and look how far it's come. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

Microsoft retired video calling service Skype just earlier this year — as well as Internet Explorer back in 2022. And in 2017 ...
Wall Street Journal

The World Wide Web Turns 30: A History of the Internet Technology

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation ...
Hackaday

Remembering CompuServe: The Online Experience Before The World Wide Web

Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were other ways to go online, with Ohio-based CompuServe being the first to offer a consumer-oriented service on September 24, 1979 ...