Person: Berners-Lee

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Web inventor calls for unity to stop misuse

Tim Berners-Lee says it would be defeatist to think that the web, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, cannot be changed for the better, writes Martyn Landi

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Ireland ranked 20th out of 86 in Web Index

A battle we can’t afford to lose

world

Freedom of the internet ‘under threat’

world

Founder of web urges digital ‘bill of rights’

world

As internet turns 25, creator calls for 'digital bill of rights'

A life less ordinary as Twitter marks Web's 25th anniversary

This day 25 years ago the World Wide Web — brainchild of computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee — was conceived.

Wed, 12 Mar, 2014

25 years of the world wide web

The 25th anniversary of the world wide web will be celebrated around the globe this week. The milestone will be marked on Wednesday, a quarter of a century since it was first proposed in 1989 by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

Mon, 10 Mar, 2014

The world wide web - Changing our world forever

This week the world will mark the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest, deepest, fastest, far-reaching, and evolving changes in how the world’s 7bn people live, and how we will live, for ever more.

Mon, 10 Mar, 2014

Internet founder hails Snowden

Edward Snowden did the world a favour by revealing the scale of surveillance by governments, according to the inventor of the internet.

Thu, 26 Dec, 2013

‘US government killed my internet activist son’

Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was “killed by the US government”, his father told mourners.

Thu, 17 Jan, 2013

Father of www lands million-euro prize

The inventor of the world wide web, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has been named as the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, winning €1m as a result.

Thu, 15 Apr, 2004