Can you imagine what life would be like without the World Wide Web? More importantly, can you imagine how many facets of life and society have changed as a result of the World Wide Web? Recommended ...

The commonly held image of the American Web pioneer is that of a twenty-something, bespectacled computer geek hunched over his Unix box in the wee hours of the morning, surrounded by the detritus of ...

Well, it didn't, exactly. As with many inventions, in order to understand how today's Web developed, you have to look farther back than its official introduction. The seeds of the Web were planted ...

On March 11, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer programmer working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, sent in a proposal for an information management system. His boss responded ...

Tim Berners-Lee told CNBC there has been a "big change" in the web since he invented it nearly 30 years ago. The founder of the World Wide Web listed concerns like fake news, data privacy and access ...

Thursday marks 30 years since computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted his formal proposal for a new idea: the World Wide Web. At the time, he was working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. So if ...

While some concepts of the Internet date back to the 1950s, the public-facing World Wide Web traces its history back 25 years. Here is a timeline: March 12, 1989: British computer scientist Tim ...

This isn't the internet that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he laid the groundwork for the World Wide Web 30 years ago today. Rather than the free and open online utopia he envisioned, "the web has ...

On June 23, 1980 – 40 years ago tomorrow – English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland, began working on a project he called ENQUIRE. This work would eventually ...

Ever thought about what it would be like to own the World Wide Web? Now you sort of can — well, a digital representation of its source code anyway. Next week, British computer scientist Sir Tim ...

A blockchain-based token representing the original source code for the World Wide Web written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby's in an online auction on Wednesday, the ...