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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & TRENDS
On the 30th anniversary of the World
Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee' shares his
concerns and ideas for improvement
Thirty years ago, the physicist Tim Berners-Lee principle could then be transferred to the internet, too .
proposed a network of computers for the nuclear HTML is easy to learn, and if you put in between texts,
research institute CERN, thus laying the foundation for pictures and graphics, you could view websites. In
the World Wide Web (WWW). Today, after 30 years, addition, documents could be linked together, across
he warns in a letter against data abuse, disinformation, continents.
hate speech and censorship, calling on the world to
counteract intentionally disseminated malicious content Within a few years, the number of web servers
with laws and computer codes. Business models that exploded: Berners-Lee put the first website on the net,
promote the dissemination of misinformation could be which was on a server at CERN, then the first US
prevented, he believes, and is campaigning with his website was on a Stanford University computer. In
"Web Foundation" for companies, governments and civil 1993, when the WWW software was made available to
society to sign a contract for a better web. the public, there were already 130 Internet sites around
and just three years later, there were more than
The movement is driven by the man who not only 100,000 of them – and by now there are more than 1.6
developed the markup language HTML (Hypertext billion.
Markup Language), which helps build websites, but
programmed a web server and a browser. All three However, 30 years after his invention, Berners-Lee got
things put together laid the foundation for the World again frustrated – this time how it is used: “People are
Wide Web. He made it easy to retrieve various annoyed about ads or about not knowing what's true,"
documents on different computers within CERN, and the he says. “They cannot work properly together, or they
6 March 2019 - Visual Search, Voice Search, Smart Speakers & SEO
