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 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 ...

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web nearly 30 years ago. Now he wants to fix it. Berners-Lee on Monday revealed a new campaign called “Contract for the Web” at the Web Summit tech ...

The internet we use today owes much of its look and feel to Sir Tim Berners-Lee' and his creation, the World Wide Web. The web's launch can be traced back 35 years to Berners-Lee's paper ...

LONDON — British computer scientist and inventor Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning the original code for the world wide web as a non-fungible token. NFTs are a type of digital asset designed to show ...

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn More Tim Berners-Lee founded the web in the early 1990s as a tool for collaboration. But this initial vision was sidelined by read-only web browsers better suited for consuming content ...

"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 ...