When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...
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 ...
Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved ...
Like the surface of the ocean, the surface web is just a fraction of the internet as a whole. Back in 2017, some estimates ...
Promoting his new book, “This Is for Everyone,” the British computer scientist’s original optimism has been replaced by anxiety and urgency.
“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 ...