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 ...

But 30 years ago this week, that all changed. On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain. The web made it simple for anyone to navigate the internet.

The seeds of the Web were planted much earlier than 1991. Amazingly, a very early version of the World Wide Web was floating around in at least one person's head way back during World War II.

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer ...

April 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the moment the World Wide Web was handed to humanity, and look how far it's come. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Forward-looking: The original World Wide Web software platform was developed by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN. The novel information system was designed to ...

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, now wants to save it. The computer scientist who wrote the blueprint for what would become the World Wide Web 28 years ago today is alarmed at ...

SIR Tim Berners-Lee's world wide web changed the world forever in 1989. Meet the man behind the invention. Computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is best known for the unrivalled achievement of ...