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.

“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 ...

You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. From phrases like ‘surfing the ...

Forward-looking: The original World Wide Web software platform was developed by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN. The novel information system was designed to promote ...

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 ...

This is the NeXT computer used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee for the first World Wide Web server. Coolcaesar / Wikipedia Commons It went live just over 30 years ago and doesn’t even have pictures. The ...

The 25th anniversary of Wikipedia’s first public entry comes amid the rapid growth of Elon Musk’s AI-powered alternative, Grokipedia.

The World Wide Web was created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before the invention of the ...

Thirty years ago, listeners tuning into Morning Edition heard about a futuristic idea that could profoundly change their lives. "Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all ...

India is advanced in that everybody has an ID. But behind that (digital) ID (Aadhaar), you don't have a place where you can ...

“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 ...