William Caxton was sure that the printing press he’d bought was a great idea. But he didn’t realise that it would change the world. Five hundred years later, in 1989, Tim Berners Lee had an idea.

This work would eventually evolve into hypertext, HTML and the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee in 2000 (William Plowman/AP) In 1980, CERN was the place to be for cutting-edge computer research.

Tim Berners-Lee is worried about the internet. Credit: Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the English scientist credited with the invention of the World Wide Web ...

On March 11, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer programmer working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, sent in a proposal for an information management system. His boss ...

Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed? By Steve Lohr Three decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee devised ...

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee released an ambitious rule book for online governance — a bill of rights and obligations for the internet — designed to counteract the growing ...

At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with such issues as hate speech, privacy concerns and hacking, its creator says, calling of ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, is selling the source code for his invention as an NFT at a Sotheby's auction. The NFT, or non-fungible token, is a type of ...

When the world wide web turned 30, its founder, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, aired his concerns over the web's uglier side including fake news, privacy incursions, and online tracking, largely due to the ...

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Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has received some cash to go with the glory of this year's award of a knighthood. He is the first recipient of the €1m Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the ...