The inventor of the World Wide Web is on a laudable mission to give everyone control of their online data. He's fighting an uphill battle.
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WWW Foundation declares mission accomplished. Founded in 2009 when only around one in five had access to the internet, the letter draws...
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In a letter [PDF] shared via the organization's website, co-founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee – inventor of the World Wide Web – and Rosemary Leith...
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Tim Berners-Lee invented and developed the World Wide Web as an essential tool for high energy physics at CERN from 1989 to 1994.
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The researchers found that young beech trees could transfer carbon to nearby "ectomycorrhizal" fungi—a kind of fungi that grows on and together...
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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...
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The Washington Post visited the Corning factory in Midland, N.C. — the largest optical fiber facility in the United States — to see how these...
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On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web ... The post that went 'round the world—and how Popular Science responded...
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, revealed that the organization is ceasing operations.
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On September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have...
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