How the internet and Wi-Fi work: A guide to connections, data and the cloud

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...
Tech Times

World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Reflects on the Internet's Evolution: Was It Really Free?

Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, reflects on how his original vision for a free and open internet has been undermined ...
The New Yorker

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his recently ...

AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

Microsoft retired video calling service Skype just earlier this year — as well as Internet Explorer back in 2022. And in 2017 ...

The World Wide Web’s creator explains why he gave it for free and his regret

Tim Berners-Lee wanted the world wide web to spur global collaboration. Tech platforms have, instead, turned it into a data harvesting platform while users have become products.
Fast Company

What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year

Thirty years ago, the baby web was just starting to go mainstream, but you could already see a pixelated vision of the world to come. In 1994, the modern Internet (which was almost always capitalized ...