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

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 ...

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were other ways to go online, with Ohio-based CompuServe being the first to offer a consumer-oriented service on September 24, 1979 ...

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 ...