The World Wide Web Turns 25
Today is the official birthday, but the Web was not actually born on this date
The Mind Behind the Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and continues to shape its frantic evolution. He's neither rich nor famous, which is fine by him
The Web Turns 25…Sort Of
In March 1989, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee proposed a way to link together documents on different computers that were connected to the Internet.
Berners-Lee returns to CERN to reminisce on the Web's past and focus on its future
Computer scientists, engineers and journalists converged on the CERN particle physics lab in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland, today to pay homage to a piece of paper—several pieces of paper, actually—that together form Tim Berners-Lee's March 1989 proposal that would come to be the blueprint for the World Wide Web...
How Hackers Take Down Web Sites
Many of the Web sites we visit every day are under cyber attack by malicious hackers looking to disrupt business transactions, discourage people from using a particular online service or exact payback for some real or perceived slight...
A Science of the Web Begins
Remembering the Day the World Wide Web Was Born
What drove Tim Berners-Lee to imagine this game-changing model for information sharing, and will its openness be its undoing?
How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web
The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information
All Together Now: Unleashing the Web's Synergistic Possibilities
Understanding how novelty emerges from complex systems is a new frontier
Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future
Studying the Web will reveal better ways to exploit information, prevent identity theft, revolutionize industry, and manage our ever-growing online lives
Millennium Foundation Recognizes Inventors and Technologies That Changed the World
Scientists at Bell Labs, Harvard--M.I.T. and the University of Leicester are among the finalists for the $1.8-million Finnish award
We are the world: Web's designer launches foundation to bring invention to all
It’s a lofty goal: make the World Wide Web truly global. Now, the Web's inventor says he'll try to do just that.
The new World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Tim Berners-Lee, will launch next year to bring the Web to people who don’t have ready access to it, the organization announced today — an effort that reflects what Berners-Lee says is the inherent populist nature of the Web...
The Semantic Web
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities
Facts about the Web's Creation
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Web's first days
The Future of Computing (circa 1999)
M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies--the Oxygen system--that promises to realize a vision long held by the lab's director: helping people do more by doing less...
The Semantic Web in Action
Corporate applications are well under way, and consumer uses are emerging