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

Forward-looking: The original World Wide Web software platform was developed by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN. The novel information system was designed to promote ...

Getting free stuff in the mail can be exciting, especially if the stuff that’s free is new and novel. On the other hand, it can be frustrating to have unsolicited stuff pouring into your mailbox. From ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The commonly held image of the American Web pioneer is that of a twenty-something, bespectacled computer geek hunched over his Unix box in the wee hours of the morning, surrounded by the detritus of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1989. On Wednesday, he auctioned the world wide web in the form of a non-fungible token or NFT, which sold to an anonymous buyer for $5 ...

Ever thought about what it would be like to own the World Wide Web? Now you sort of can — well, a digital representation of its source code anyway. Next week, British computer scientist Sir Tim ...

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 innovation ...