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Tim Berners-Lee wants everyone to own their own data – his plan needs state and consumer support to work

Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, has released an important new book about the problems we face online and how to solve them. It is called This is for Everyone, meaning that the internet should be for all.

The Conversation

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

Is this the nerdiest war to ever be fought?

PC Gamer

OPINION - Tim Berners-Lee: The internet needs compassion – and I have a solution

We need to regulate the most addictive algorithms, writes Tim Berners-Lee

Evening Standard

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Dispatch from London Tech Week: From Keir Starmer to the rise of digital twins

Is it scarier to be on board the AI rocketship or left behind? Maybe ask your digital twin …

Evening Standard

Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist

Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassing

The Guardian - UK

A Climate of Truth by Mike Berners-Lee review – a white-hot takedown of environmental policy

The climate professor is justified in identifying the thinktanks, fossil fuel companies and politicians responsible for exacerbating the climate crisis but his list of remedies is underpowered

The Guardian - UK

Note to No 10: one speed doesn’t fit all when it comes to online safety

Legislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something’s gone wrong

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Relive surfing the original internet with new emulator — 34 years later, WorldWideWeb app commemorates the first web browser

Web Design Museum celebrates the 34th anniversary of web browsers by releasing an emulator of the very first, WorldWideWeb.

Tom’s Hardware

The death of the internet: why the future is terrifying, and how we fix it

We’re living in a slowly degrading echo-chamber of AI, ads, and profits

TechRadar

World Wide Web Foundation closes, says "mission accomplished"

World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee is turning his back on the WF in order to develop “the web - take 3.”

TechRadar

50 Nostalgic Posts That Instantly Take You To The Good Old 1990s

If it weren’t for the 90s, so many things wouldn’t be doable today. Like browsing Bored Panda. Or finding cool stuff on Facebook. The post 50 Nostalgic Posts That Instantly Take You To The Good Old 1990s first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Exploring The Visionaries Of Internet Success

Explore the profiles of tech visionaries who revolutionized the internet and digital technology.

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35 years after first proposing the World Wide Web, what does its creator Tim Berners-Lee have in mind next?

After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again.

TechRadar

The World Wide Web just turned 35 years — and please, stop calling it the Internet

The internet has vastly changed since its inception in 1989, with big data, AI and faster connections transforming how people use it

TechRadar

The Google Doodle turns 25 – here are the best ones ever, ranked

From video games to inventors, Google’s Doodles have celebrated countless topics since 1998. We’ve picked our favorite logo designs.

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Readers reply: which person has had the greatest impact on the course of the 21st century so far?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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Will the Digital Asset Boom be Bigger Than the Internet?

A paradigm shift is currently underway in the financial markets as the push to turn monetary assets into digital assets. Are you prepared to capitalize on this financial revolution?

The Guardian - UK

Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web

Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source

Wales Online

The old cowshed in rural Wales where the world’s most influential people meet

'If you can find work that means something to you, then you’ll find a way to get good at it, and then if you get good at it, you’ll have a nice life'

The Conversation

What is the 'splinternet'? Here's why the internet is less whole than you might think

“Splinternet” refers to the way the internet is being splintered – broken up, divided, separated, locked down, boxed up, or otherwise segmented.

PC Gamer

The World Wide Web was released to the public 30 years ago. Feel old yet?

April 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the moment the World Wide Web was handed to humanity, and look how far it's come.

WEKU

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

The Conversation

What exactly is the internet? A computer scientist explains what it is and how it came to be

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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