The inventor of the World Wide Web is optimistic that 2025 will be the year of digital human rights but said that there could be a possible backlash against "polarising social media".

The World Wide Web is in its 35th year after Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a distributed single information system to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists ...

But Berners-Lee isn’t giving up. For the man who created the World Wide Web, the fight to save it is personal. “My big push has always been for the enabling of human beings, of people,” he said.

World Wide Web Foundation to close, as Berners-Lee shifts focus to Solid Protocol The web's founder isn't stopping advocating for a safer, better web. He's just redirecting his energy.

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 ...

WF closes down, Web 3.0 to comeThe Protocol, which has been in the works since 2015, aligns with an open letter authored by Berners-Lee in 2023 where he emphasized the urgent need to restore the ...

However, none of these services were able to fully adapt to the huge shift that came with the internet and the World Wide Web, which was a wilder place where anyone could create their own website. AOL ...

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, CERN never funded the project, although by September 1990, Sendall granted Berners-Lee time to work on it independently.

The World Wide Web transformed the internet from a specialist communication medium into a real innovation in mass media, making the obtaining and publishing of information available to everyone. How ...