Berners-Lee Talks up Online Friends and a Social Web

Jun 10, 2012

The man who invented the World Wide Web says that the technology is all about being social, so people need to use it to stretch themselves. full story

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First web page built by Tim Berners-Lee goes live again... and it looks nothing like Google

The original World Wide Web site from 1992 has been put online again to mark the 20th anniversary of Cern, where Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the web.

dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 19 days ago)

World Wide Web inventor decries NSA data collection program

The man who invented the World Wide Web is not happy with all the surveillance that the National Security Agency is conducting on his creation. Tim Berners-Lee, the legendary computer scientist who was the first to initiate communications between an HTTP client and a Web server, has told The Financial Times that the NSA’s collection of user data from several large Internet...

yahoo.com (8 days ago)

Web inventor Berners-Lee warns forces are 'trying to take control'

Companies and governments "trying to take control of the internet" are undermining the founding principles of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned.

telegraph.co.uk (11 days ago)

Tim Berners-Lee Explains The Necessity Of Open Web Standards

An idiot journalist once introduced Tim Berners-Lee as the “Inventor of the Internet.” He was quickly and firmly corrected by the man himself, who pointed out that the he invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. (The Internet refers to technology that allows one computer to communicate with another within a network. When we refer to "the Internet", we really mean "the...

forbes.com (3 months and 8 days ago)

Web Inventor Tim Berners Lee Shares £1m Prize

Sir Tim Berners Lee and four other internet pioneers receive the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize to promote technology in Britain.

sky.com (3 months and 3 days ago)

Researchers Are Still Searching For The First Webpage Ever

For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began. The scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French acronym CERN, are searching for the first Web page. It was at CERN that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1990 as an unsanctioned project,...

huffingtonpost.com (8 days ago)

Everyone's postcodes to be privatised in Royal Mail flotation, despite objections from Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Exclusive: A national database containing the postcodes of everyone in Britain is to be privatised along with Royal Mail, despite direct "very forceful" protests to David Cameron from Sir Tim Berners Lee, the founder of the world wide web.

telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 2 days ago)

Search for first Web page continues

Scientists at CERN are looking for the first Web page. It was at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1990, using a NeXT computer that Apple's Steve Jobs designed in the late 80s.

mercurynews.com (8 days ago)

Web Turns 20: I Hope It's Not On Its Way Out

On April 30th, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that it was creating the World Wide Web "to make an easy but powerful global information system" that "consists of documents referring to each other by links." The source code from the "web" was made available on a royalty free basis. CERN has re-posted what is believed to be one...

forbes.com (1 month and 19 days ago)

Google competition aims to find UK entrepreneurs

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Richard Branson join judging panel for £2m contest seeking innovative not-for-profit organisationsSir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, and Sir Richard Branson have linked up with Google to find Britain's most innovative social entrepreneurs.The pair are on the judging panel of a competition seeking British not-for-profit...

guardian.co.uk (2 months and 27 days ago)

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