Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, laid the foundations of the internet as we know it in 1989. The mind behind pioneering ideas such as HTTP and URL, Berners-Lee decided to make ...

Well, it didn't, exactly. As with many inventions, in order to understand how today's Web developed, you have to look farther back than its official introduction. The seeds of the Web were planted ...

While some concepts of the Internet date back to the 1950s, the public-facing World Wide Web traces its history back 25 years. Here is a timeline: March 12, 1989: British computer scientist Tim ...

On June 23, 1980 – 40 years ago tomorrow – English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland, began working on a project he called ENQUIRE. This work would eventually ...

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 ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses his new memoir, "This Is For Everyone." 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 ...

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, ...

Welcome to the World Wide $#%!ing Web, where it takes just thirty seconds of a bumpy information expedition to transform some tech-loving clickaholics into lunatics, a survey has found. On average, ...

Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has released an important new book about the problems we face online and how to solve ...

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special and ...

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.