Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved ...

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 ...

The World Wide Web transformed the internet from a specialist communication medium into a real innovation in mass media, making the obtaining and publishing of information available to everyone. How ...

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 creator says, ...

In 1989 a software engineer at CERN created a simple system to share information between incompatible computers. This video ...

In a way, Tim Berners-Lee’s current project is more ambitious than the one that changed history. When he conceived the World Wide Web in 1989, it didn’t compete with any other deeply-entrenched system ...

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special and ...

Tim Berners-Lee has a map of everything on the internet. It can fit on a single page and consists of around 100 blocks connected by dozens of arrows. There are blocks for things like blogs, podcasts ...

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has written a new memoir called This is for Everyone. More than 35 years after he built the first website, he reflects on the amazing technological ...

“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 ...

Promoting his new book, “This Is for Everyone,” the British computer scientist’s original optimism has been replaced by anxiety and urgency.