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

AOL introduced many households to the World Wide Web for the first time when its dial-up service launched decades ago.

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 ...

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 ...

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

When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected together an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. HTML, hypertext markup language, ...

It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness. A remarkable variety of digital mainstays trace their emergence to 1995, an innovative ...

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

You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. From phrases like ‘surfing the ...

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 ...

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.