For what might be thought of as the Big Bang of the Web, the bidding starts at $1,000. And how high the auction goes … well, that might signal whether non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will remain buoyant or mark the passing of a fad. CNBC reports...
British scientist and World Wide Web (WWW) creator Tim Berners-Lee has designed a strategy to save the internet from corruption and falsehoods, The Guardian reported on Sunday (Nov. 24). Berners-Lee worked for CERN when he was credited with inventing the web in 1989. His proposed...
For Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing and giving away the World Wide Web protocol that shaped the internet as we know it today, the web at its best has always been about being decentralized. “The decision to make the Web an open...
While all sorts of outlets wished the internet a happy birthday yesterday (March 12) they were a little bit off in their well wishes. The internet did not turn 30 this week. The World Wide Web did. The internet dates back to the 1960s ARPA...
May 20, 2019
For Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing and giving away the World Wide Web protocol that shaped the internet as we know it today, the web at its best has always been about being decentralized. “The decision to make the Web an open system was necessary for it to be universal. You can’t […]
February 20, 2023
The inventor of the World Wide Web said cryptocurrency is “only speculative.” CNBC reported Sunday (Feb. 19) that Tim Berners-Lee compared cryptocurrencies to the internet stocks at the time of the dot-com bubble that had no solid business behind them and came crashing down. “It’s only speculative,” Berners-Lee said during the Friday (Feb. 17) episode of CNBC’s […]
November 25, 2019
British scientist and World Wide Web (WWW) creator Tim Berners-Lee has designed a strategy to save the internet from corruption and falsehoods, The Guardian reported on Sunday (Nov. 24). Berners-Lee...
November 02, 2018
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned that technology giants like Facebook and Google are now so dominant that they might need to be broken up. “What...
April 11, 2017
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, said the platform needs a rethink in order to combat spying and the spread of “nasty, mean ideas” or websites. At...
