At its ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its creator says.
Tim Berners-Lee joined a celebration Tuesday of the Web and reminisced about where he invented it BԪַ at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research BԪַ beginning with a proposal published on March 12, 1989.
The 63-year-old Englishman is calling on governments, companies and citizens to work together, and wants the web to become more accessible to those who arenBԪַt online.
Speaking at a BԪַWeb@30BԪַ conference, Berners-Lee acknowledged that for those who are online, BԪַthe web is not the web we wanted in every respect.BԪַ
In 1990, I coded up the foundational technologies for the World Wide Web.
BԪַ Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee)
To celebrate the webBԪַs 30th birthday, will you add to a crowdsourced Twitter timeline of the webBԪַs milestone moments?
The Associated Press
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