Tim Berners-Lee

The World Wide Web Doesn’t Revolve Around You, Music Industry

It’s always nice when family has your back. So it should come as a great relief to hear that Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, opposes recent controversial web freedom-limiting legislation such as SOPA and PIPA. At press conference for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) he made clear his belief that the…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Texas Jury Smacks Down Landmark Shakedown Attempt by Infamous Patent Troll

Tim “I helped invent the Internet” Berners-Lee testified before a federal jury earlier this week, tearing into the validity of a key patent Eolas Technologies’ was exploiting to sue multiple web companies for $600 million. He must have been persuasive because the court took mere hours to reach its decision. Eolas Technologies, an infamous patent…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Web at 20: It Changed Everything

Happy Birthday, Interwebz! How far you’ve come. See, if the Internet drew its first breath in the fall of 1969, it took its first steps toward its potential on August 6, 1991. Took awhile there. But it was this first step that was just the beginning. https://gizmodo.com/here-is-the-first-photo-of-the-internet-5351053 In the Beginning The World Wide Web, or…

Tech News Kwame Opam

9 Laboratories That Created the Modern World

Sure Frankenstein’s lab had that green guy and Dr. Weird’s housed a gigantic mecha-bunny—but these labs! Oobject brings us the lairs of science’s greatest minds—the researchers who have given the world electricity, television, the Internet, and LSD! Albert Hoffmann’s LSD Lab The Swiss didn’t invent the cuckoo clock (the Germans did) but they did invent…

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This Is Where the Web Was Born

Tim Berners-Lee cites this spot (specifically that plaque on the wall!) at CERN to be the birthplace of the world wide web. Note the series of tubes on the ceiling. Those played a critical role, I understand. [davidgalbraith]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Eight Regrettable Tech Inventions, Regretted

The history of technology is littered with great ideas, but you’ve got a make a distinction between the ones that are truly, timelessly great, and the ones that, well, seemed good at the time. It’s usually heartening to see a great mind recognize an error in judgment, or a personal accomplishment gone awry—that’s humility, and…

Tech News John Herrman

The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees

Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who usually gets the cred for inventing the world wide web, says there is one thing he’d do differently if he did it all again: He’d dump the double slash that follows http in web addresses. He apparently laments all the trees and time that’s been killed by people having to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Machine That Changed the World

Perhaps more than anything else previously invented, this pretty black box changed the world of communications, entertainment, commerce, scientific research, and even war forever. In fact, the world as we know it today would have never existed without it. It happened less than two decades ago, when Tim Berners-Lee released version 0.1 of his web…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Queen Loves the Web

It’s confirmed: the Queen loves the Web. Her Majesty has just awarded the Order of Merit to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW. That’s the most exclusive club in Britain, chaps. It’s limited to 24 living members and getting that funny cross is a personal decision by The Lady herself, not advised by any…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The World Wide Web Doesn’t Revolve Around You, Music Industry

Texas Jury Smacks Down Landmark Shakedown Attempt by Infamous Patent Troll

The Web at 20: It Changed Everything

9 Laboratories That Created the Modern World

This Is Where the Web Was Born

Eight Regrettable Tech Inventions, Regretted

The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees

The Machine That Changed the World

The Queen Loves the Web

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