Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel. The network was complicated and, although it was possible to share files ...

In 1989, young software engineer Tim Berners Lee set out to solve a simple problem at CERN how to share information between ...

Thirty years ago this week Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website and kicked off the World Wide Web. Today the web is ubiquitous and has had widespread impacts on the way we live, communicate, ...

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 ...

When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected together an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. HTML, hypertext markup language, ...

April 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the moment the World Wide Web was handed to humanity, and look how far it's come. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Can you imagine what life would be like without the World Wide Web? More importantly, can you imagine how many facets of life and society have changed as a result of the World Wide Web? Recommended ...

The World Wide Web is the collection of web resources and pages (like this one) that can be accessed via the web browser of an internet-enabled device. Web resources are connected to each other by ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, isn't resting on his laurels. He recognizes how much of his creation has spun out of control, and is promoting a better, more ethical and ...

The World Wide Web was born on this day in 1991. From history.com, “British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website while working at CERN, a particle physics lab in ...

I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. By Tim Berners-Lee Mr. Berners-Lee is a co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. My parents were mathematicians.