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World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Reflects on the Internet's Evolution: Was It Really Free?

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 ...
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 ...
Tech Xplore

News sites are locking out the internet archive to stop AI crawling. Is the 'open web' closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...
Hackaday

VRML And The Dream Of Bringing 3D To The World Wide Web

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 ...

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 the web away for free so everyone could use it, but warns that today, user ...