Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal into Wi-Fi, allowing phones, laptops, TVs and other devices to connect ...

On this day in 1990, physicist Tim Berners-Lee circulated a memo for a relatively modest information sharing proposal that ...

Thirty years ago, listeners tuning into Morning Edition heard about a futuristic idea that could profoundly change their lives. "Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all ...

The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of ...

To this end, analyzing the top websites worldwide for any given time period can now offer critical insights into user ...

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation ...

The 1957 launch of the satellite Sputnik revealed the technological capabilities of the Soviet Union, and Cold War rivalry encouraged the United States to gear up. President Eisenhower established the ...

A 1980 print advertisement for CompuServe Information Service shows a photo of the RadioShack TRS-80 microcomputer. Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, laid the foundations of the internet as we know it in 1989. The mind behind pioneering ideas such as HTTP and URL, Berners-Lee decided to make ...

If you’ve ever used a hyperlink — a bit of typically underlined online text like this that, when clicked, helpfully takes you to another website or document — you should thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a ...

In a surprising announcement, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, revealed that the organization is ceasing operations. The ...

“For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In ...