Exactly 30 years ago, a young British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee handed a research paper to his boss. It was called “Information Management: A Proposal” and he had been working on it for ...

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 ...

I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. By Tim Berners-Lee Mr. Berners-Lee is a co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. My parents were mathematicians.

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 ...

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This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2025) The World Wide Web is one of those rare innovations that truly reshaped the world. It ...