Tag: World Wide Web

As the web turns 30, is it an ‘out-of-control monster’?

by Agnès PEDRERO MEYRIN, Switzerland (AFP) — Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may spell its destruction. Berner-Lee’s old office at Europe’s physics lab CERN now looks no different […]