Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more
Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet. LinkedIn: Juan Francisco Diez . Bluesky: @glynmo...
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI
The inventor of the World Wide Web is on a laudable mission to give everyone control of their online data. He's fighting an uphill battle. X: @noyesclt . Forums: Hacker News X: Tom Noyes / @noyesclt ...
Co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith plan to close the World Wide Web Foundation after 15 years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible
Who wants to join his so Solid crew? — After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down.
On the web's 35th birthday, there are two issues to address: power concentration, which contradicts decentralization, and exploitation of personal data
Tim Berners-Lee / World Wide Web Foundation : Mastodon: @nickheer@c.im and @matthiasott@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @upshotknothole.bsky.social X: @mave99a , @ingridlunden , @mattbrittin , @timberners...
Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton board in privacy advisory role, amid privacy backlash at ProtonMail, which disclosed an activist's IP address to Swiss authorities
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Tim Berners-Lee sells an NFT for $5.4M that represents time-stamped files of the source code for the world wide web and other items, via a Sotheby's auction
but contains errors (lol) New York Times : The World Wide Web sells for $5.4 million. Kate Knibbs / Wired : The Code That Built the Web Is Now a $5 Million NFT Kimberly Chin / Wall Street Journal : In...
Tim Berners-Lee defends his decision to auction an NFT representing the web's source code, comparing it to the sale of an autographed book or a speaking tour
Creator of the world wide web says digital asset is ‘totally aligned with the values of the web’
DuckDuckGo says it raised $100M+ in “mainly secondary investment” in late 2020 from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others
Privacy tech continues cooking on gas. To wit: Non-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo has just revealed that it beefed …
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning his original source code for the web as an NFT, the first time he would be able to raise money directly from his invention
Sotheby's sale will be first time creator has been able to raise money directly from invention — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning …