Tim Berners-Lee urges decentralized web to counter AI exploitation and ad-driven abuse

More than 30 years after its creation, the web is a very different place. In a recent op-ed for The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” ...
The Hill

‘The Internet? Bah!’ Remembering 1995, the year of the world wide web.

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 ...

The World Wide Web’s creator explains why he gave it for free and his regret

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

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

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

45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web

A 1980 print advertisement for CompuServe Information Service shows a photo of the RadioShack TRS-80 microcomputer. Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected ...