Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved ...

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

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.

Worldwide Web Day honors the profound impact of this groundbreaking invention that connects people worldwide and shapes our digital age. The World Wide Web (WWW), an integral part of modern life, ...

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...

“For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In ...

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 ...

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special and ...

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 ...

The agentic web shifts humans from on-the-job labor to middle management: oversight while agents go out and do research or work for us. They also change how we experience the web, from surfing to ...

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 ...