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Here Comes the World-Wide Web of Everything

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, ...

Tim Berners-Lee, the idealistic architect of the World Wide Web, faces its dark side in his new memoir

Lee’s optimism clouds his ability to offer solutions for the political and social dystopia that the internet has spawned in ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Conversation

The world wide web was meant to unite us, but is tearing us apart instead. Is there another way?

Dana McKay has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Digital Health Agency, and Google (this last ruing her PhD). George Buchanan does not work for, consult, own shares ...