Opinion

Tim Berners-Lee Warns of a Battle for the Internet’s Soul

Promoting his new book, “This Is for Everyone,” the British computer scientist’s original optimism has been replaced by anxiety and urgency.
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 ...

It's 'not too late' to fix the internet, says Tim Berners-Lee

Just don't ask what he thinks about ...
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.
CoinTelegraph

Tim Berners-Lee says internet DNS should have been more decentralized

Tim Berners-Lee said at ETH Prague that if he were designing a domain system today, he would make it more decentralized, in a nod to concerns over DNS centralization. World Wide Web and hypertext ...
Ars Technica

A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins

Welcome to the second article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven't already, read part one here. As a refresher, here's the story so far: The ARPANET was a project ...
Ars Technica

A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...