Quote of the day by Tim Berners-Lee, who invented World Wide Web and gave it away for free: 'My vision is based on sharing, not exploitation'

Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, reminds us that his vision was always “based on sharing, not exploitation.” He gave ...
Opinion

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet

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

He Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s What He Hopes for the Age of AI

In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It’s a far cry from what the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, intended to create. He ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Now he wants to save it.

“If you’re reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting. He’s the necessary condition behind everything from Amazon to Wikipedia, and ...
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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, ...

Sir Tim's wondrous wired world and the mission to set the web right

Having invented the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee insisted that it be made free for anyone to access, thus denying himself, according to some accounts, a life of almost unimaginable material wealth ...
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 ...