Lee’s optimism clouds his ability to offer solutions for the political and social dystopia that the internet has spawned in ...

In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It’s a far cry from what the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, intended to create. He ...

“If you’re reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting. He’s the necessary condition behind everything from Amazon to Wikipedia, and ...

What do you do after you make that thing that changes the world? If you’re Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and you breathed life into the World Wide Web, you make sure it gets used properly. Hence the Web Index, ...

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee reckons the internet is in a mess, hijacked by social media platforms that turned people into products rather than customers. “Somewhere between my original ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux has acquired U.S. rights to a new memoir by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Titled This Is for Everyone, it was acquired from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie ...

GENEVA (AP) — At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its ...

Tim Berners-Lee suggests the web’s flaws requires regulation to fix. But the problem doesn't lie in design alone: The entire fiat-based monetary system exerts pressure that distorts incentives and has ...

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has announced plans for a new organization to help promote the use of the Web for scientific research and to ease the digital divide in developing ...

The World Wide Web Foundation, the organization whose mission has been to make the web safer and more accessible, has shut down, according to The Register. The foundation, which close its virtual ...

The World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee’s latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, called on Wednesday for bill of rights to protect freedom of speech on the Internet and users' rights after leaks about ...