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 ...

The hope of the World Wide Web, according to its creator Tim Berners-Lee, was that it would make communication easier, bring ...

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, ...

Can you imagine what life would be like without the World Wide Web? More importantly, can you imagine how many facets of life and society have changed as a result of the World Wide Web? Recommended ...

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 ...

Imagine waking up in a world where you couldn’t message your friends, watch puppy videos, look up homework help, or play games with someone living across the globe. Hard to picture, right? Yet, only a ...

Thirty years ago this week Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website and kicked off the World Wide Web. Today the web is ubiquitous and has had widespread impacts on the way we live, communicate, ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, isn't resting on his laurels. He recognizes how much of his creation has spun out of control, and is promoting a better, more ethical and ...

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

After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again. When you purchase ...

The World Wide Web was born on this day in 1991. From history.com, “British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website while working at CERN, a particle physics lab in ...

I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. By Tim Berners-Lee Mr. Berners-Lee is a co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. My parents were mathematicians.