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In 1990, engineer Tim Berners-Lee developed a CERN browser that transformed online information access
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client
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Quote of the day by Tim Berners-Lee: "Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves"
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness' - Tom's Hardware
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‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet
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This Is for Everyone — Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen Witt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025).
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Tim Berners-Lee wants everyone to own their own data – his plan needs state and consumer support to work
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Tim Berners-Lee Warns A.I. Could Kill the Web Economy as No One Visits Sites Anymore
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Tim Berners-Lee: why the inventor of the Web is ‘optimistic, idealistic and perhaps a little naïve
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks on the importance of designing human systems at Brattle Theater
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At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data
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Tim Berners Lee warns the free web is broken, calls for CERN like body to govern global AI research
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Father Of The Web Sounds Alarm On The State Of The Internet And Vows To Fix It
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Tim Berners-Lee shares his predictions on the 35th anniversary of the World Wide Web
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