In 1989, young software engineer Tim Berners Lee set out to solve a simple problem at CERN how to share information between incompatible computers. His solution, the World Wide Web, quickly grew from ...

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 ...

Lee’s optimism clouds his ability to offer solutions for the political and social dystopia that the internet has spawned in ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On August 6, 1991, in a little-known newsgroup–an early-days ...

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 ...