The Hill

‘The Internet? Bah!’ Remembering 1995, the year of the world wide web.

It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness. A remarkable variety of digital mainstays trace their emergence to 1995, an innovative ...
techtimes

World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Reflects on the Internet's Evolution: Was It Really Free?

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web to open the internet to the masses. His life-changing invention of HTTP and URLs paved the way for the massive network of data we interact with ...

What the history of the internet can tell us about internet regulation and what everyone gets wrong

If the early days of AI were marked by a laissez-faire approach, 2026 will be the year of intense battles over regulation and ...
Nature

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2025) The World Wide Web is one of those rare innovations that truly reshaped the world. It ...
Hackaday

VRML And The Dream Of Bringing 3D To The World Wide Web

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 ...
The New Yorker

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

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.
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The World Wide Web’s creator explains why he gave it for free and his regret

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, laid the foundations of the internet as we know it in 1989. The mind behind pioneering ideas such as HTTP and URL, Berners-Lee decided to make ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his ...
USA Today

How the internet and Wi-Fi work: A guide to connections, data and the cloud

The internet is a global network of servers that moves and stores data using hardware, software, and protocols. Wi-Fi is a local wireless network that distributes the internet signal to devices in ...
New Scientist

'Most of it is good': Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now

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 ...