Tim Berners-Lee

Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream

Frank McCourt says he wants to buy TikTok to make a "new and better version of the internet."

YouTube: No More AI Zombie Children

Grifters on YouTube will have to find new ways to make money off of the suffering of real murder victims.

You Use These Tech Acronyms Every Day, But Do You Know What They Mean?

What does URL actually stand for? LTE? And what's the difference between the internet and the "World Wide Web?"

The First Edit to Wikipedia Is Being Auctioned as an NFT

The "Hello, World!" message was first penned by the platform's co-founder back in 2001.

Error Found in the NFT of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Code

Turns out the anonymous buyer paid millions for code that doesn't even work.

Tim Berners-Lee Sells NFT of the Source Code for the World Wide Web for $5.4 Million

The "Father of the Web" plans to donate the money to charity. It's not the worst idea.

The World Wide Web is 32 Today and Billions of People Still Don’t Have Access to It

Today is the World Wide Web’s 32nd birthday. It can’t be overstated how much the world has come to rely on it since inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989—particularly in the last year. The web has completely changed the face…

The Plan to Fix the Web Needs More Murder

A skeptic might read the headline “I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It” as another hollow New York Times regret-itorial along the lines of “I Created a Monster. Here’s My Next Thing!” But Tim Berners-Lee, the benevolent father of the internet, has produced an international treaty to rebuild the web…

The Web’s Dad Isn’t Angry, Just Disappointed 

Thirty years ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for what would become the world wide web. Now, for many reasons, the man widely credited with inventing the web is less than thrilled with how we’ve treated it in the intervening decades. “While the web has created opportunity, given marginalised [sic] groups a voice, and…

Travel Back to 1990 With the Original World Wide Web Browser

The World Wide Web turns 30 this year, and to celebrate three decades of utter chaos and brilliance, CERN developers and designers have created a version of the original WorldWideWeb browser that can run inside a modern browser. What, you wonder, is it like to surf the original web? Well, give it a try here.…

The Founding Fathers of the Internet Plead With EU to Squash Its Bad Copyright Bill

Once again European lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that promises to change the internet as we know it. Experts say a misguided update to copyright laws poses a serious danger to how we share news, upload fair use content, make memes, and build startups. Now, some of the pioneers of the web…

This Guy Invented the World Wide Web and All He Got Was a Lousy Million-Dollar Prize

Haha, just kidding. Well, not about the prize part. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, just won the ACM Turing Award and the $1 million purse that comes with it. The sum seems menial for such a world-changing contribution, but seriously, Sir Tim will be fine. The Turing Award is also known…

The Father of the World Wide Web Has Some Worries About His Baby

Yesterday was the 28th anniversary of the day that Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web. In honor of the occasion, he published a letter outlining the biggest areas of its development that are doing him a frighten and warping his original vision. Berners-Lee still directs the World Wide…

The Web’s Creator Now Wants to Unfuck It

The web is a little fucked up right now. Governments are spying on civilians, some block specific websites, and companies like Amazon have a stranglehold on the cloud services business. But what if we could create a decentralized web, with more privacy, less government control, and less corporate influence? Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World…

Happy 25th Birthday to the Embattled World Wide Web

How do you sing happy birthday to a computer? Or, more specifically, how do you sing happy birthday to a system of hyperlinked files accessible, by the internet, that live inside your computer (and phone, and tablet, and so on)? It is, after all, the World Wide Web’s 25th birthday. On March 12, 1989, British…

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, is doing a Reddit AMA right now.

Tim Berners-Lee: We Need an Online Magna Carta

Daddy of the internet Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out in an attempt to enshrine the independence of the world wide web, telling the Guardian that he believes we need an online Magna Carta to protect the rights of its users world wide. Speaking to the newspaper, he said that “we need a global constitution –…

Tim Berners-Lee: Surveillance Threatens the Future of Democracy

The NSA revelations and general feeling of threat that comes from the knowledge our communications are being watched is worrying Tim Berners-Lee, so much so that he’s calling for “bold steps” to be taken to ensure our privacy and right to freedom of expression make it through this era of intense monitoring and paranoia. Sir…

Inventor of the Web Given Hero’s Welcome at Olympics

Yesterday’s Olympic opening ceremony was a hallucinatory ode to western history, questionable British music, a giant baby, David Beckham’s body, and—amid the athletic sprawl—one of the greatest geeks of all time. During one strange portion of the ceremony that honored technology’s role in turning us into phone-gazing status zombies, the action abruptly broke away to…

The First Ever Proposal for the Web Was Judged “Vague, But Exciting”

Great ideas aren’t always recognised as such at first. But when Tim Berners-Lee submitted to his boss the first proposal for what would become the web, everyone knew that something special was in the making. Berners-Lee submitted the document to his boss at CERN, Mike Sendall, in the March of 1989. A hard copy of…