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‘The net should be a blank piece of paper,’ says Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, emerged from an elevator into the ...
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, near where he teaches at MIT ...
World Wide Web and hypertext markup language (HTML) inventor Tim Berners-Lee said that if he were building a domain name service (DNS) today, he would make it “more decentralized.” Speaking at ETH ...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee famously gave the source code to the World Wide Web away for free. But now he has raised over $5.4 million by auctioning off an autographed copy as a non-fungible token ...
Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston ...
Next week, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will auction an NFT of the original source code he used to create the World Wide Web. The centerpiece of the digital collectible will be 9,555 lines of time ...
Tim Berners-Lee is entirely correct in his call that getting the internet to the 4 billion people who currently don't have it should be thought of as a roll out of infrastructure of similar ...
Tim Berners-Lee acknowledged that “many people feel afraid and unsure if the web is really a force for good,” in a letter published for his World Wide Web Foundation on Monday. “While the ...
On March 12, 1989, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted a simple idea to his colleagues at the European nuclear research lab CERN: to build a networked hypertext system that would manage ...
A self-described “data nerd,” Berners-Lee has long taken pleasure in coming up with new ways to get more out of the information in his life. For example, before digital photos were routinely ...
That snub may seem to clash with Berners-Lee’s recent actions. The 67-year-old now campaigns to save his “dysfunctional” brainchild from the clutches of Big Tech. The 💜 of EU tech The ...
"The question is, who does it work for?" Tim Berners-Lee said Tuesday during a panel otherwise focused on robotics at the Austin, Texas, conference. Berners-Lee's question drove to the heart of ...