When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...

Worldwide Web Day honors the profound impact of this groundbreaking invention that connects people worldwide and shapes our digital age. The World Wide Web (WWW), an integral part of modern life, ...

In a surprising announcement, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, revealed that the organization is ceasing operations. The ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

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 ...

Having invented the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee insisted that it be made free for anyone to access, thus denying himself, according to some accounts, a life of almost unimaginable material wealth ...

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer and more ...

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 ...