I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. My parents were mathematicians. My mother helped co... Read more
Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, com... Read more
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer at CERN, Europe’s largest Physics Laboratory, was frustrated with how the internet would only enable sharing of informat... Read more
Twenty-five years ago today, I filed the proposal for what was to become the World Wide Web. My boss dubbed it ‘vague but exciting’. Luckily, he thought enough of the idea to allow me to qui... Read more
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship”. The warning came as he launched... Read more
“The Guardian’s Open 20: fighters for internet freedom” Rickard Falkvinge – Founder, the Pirate party Falkvinge founded the Swedish Pirate party in 2006 to focus on reforming copyrigh... Read more
THE Web is poised for a comeback. How’s that? Isn’t the Web already the crucial utility of online commerce, information and entertainment? In many ways, it certainly is. The Web’s importance... Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti describes an effort to bring free Internet access to African communities Only 20 percent of the world’s peo... Read more
Last year here at TED I asked you to give me your data, to put your data on the web, on the basis that if people put data onto the web — government data, scientific data, community dat... Read more
Image by Fräulein Schiller via Flickr Linked Data Gives People Power, Part 1 of 4 Editor’s Note: The World Wide Web went live 20 years ago this month, on a single computer in Geneva, S... Read more
Image via Wikipedia by Tim Berners-Lee (Scientific American) The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy its... Read more