The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments ...

He could have patented his World Wide Web technology but he deliberately ... This creates a data network without which today's world could not function. Today Berners-Lee is a professor at the ...

In many parts of the world, Facebook is the internet and the only experience that people have of the web. Most apps function as gatekeepers of our personal data.

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this ...

The seeds of the Web were planted much earlier than 1991. Amazingly, a very early version of the World Wide Web was floating around in at least one person's head way back during World War II.

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 ...

But 30 years ago this week, that all changed. On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain. The web made it simple for anyone to navigate the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, now wants to save it. The computer scientist who wrote the blueprint for what would become the World Wide Web 28 years ago today is alarmed at ...

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 ...