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 ...
The Atlantic

This Is the First World Wide Web Page of All Time

In honor of today's 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web, its creators at the research laboratory CERN (the Higgs Boson guys) have gone all nostalgic — and a bit anti-establishment — in recreating ...

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 Harvard Crimson

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

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his ...
PBS

He Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s What He Hopes for the Age of AI

In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It’s a far cry from what the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, intended to create. He ...
India Today on MSN

Tim Berners Lee warns the free web is broken, calls for CERN like body to govern global AI research

Lee, inventor of the world wide web, calls for a new international, Cern-like body to oversee AI research and stresses restoring internet users' control over their own data. Drawing on lessons from ...