Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail ...

Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, reminds us that his vision was always “based on sharing, not exploitation.” He gave the web away for free so everyone could use it, but warns that today, user ...

Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, cautions that rapidly evolving artificial intelligence may surpass its human creators.

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

In a surprising announcement, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, revealed that the organization is ceasing operations. The ...

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.

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer and more ...

Tim Berners-Lee made no mention of crypto or blockchain but seems bullish on the metaverse. The man credited with creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, recently gave three predictions for the ...

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 ...

Well, it didn't, exactly. As with many inventions, in order to understand how today's Web developed, you have to look farther back than its official introduction. The seeds of the Web were planted ...

You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. From phrases like ‘surfing the ...

“For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In ...