Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel. The network was complicated and, although it was possible to share files ...

Tim Berners-Lee wanted the world wide web to spur global collaboration. Tech platforms have, instead, turned it into a data ...

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation ...

Can you imagine what life would be like without the World Wide Web? More importantly, can you imagine how many facets of life and society have changed as a result of the World Wide Web? Recommended ...

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 ...

It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness. A remarkable variety of digital mainstays trace their emergence to 1995, an innovative ...

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 ...

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...

Thirty years ago this week Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website and kicked off the World Wide Web. Today the web is ubiquitous and has had widespread impacts on the way we live, communicate, ...

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer and more ...

Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were other ways to go online, with Ohio-based CompuServe being the first to offer a consumer-oriented service on September 24, 1979 ...