Category: tim berners-lee

The birth of the internet and the first telephone call

[ad_1] First successful telephone call (March 10, 1876) Before the internet, we had the telephone. Well, we still do, but let’s be honest, most of us carry our cellphones around because they can get us online anywhere we are. But until the rise of the internet, the telephone was probably the most transformative piece of […]

We got the free and open internet we deserve

[ad_1] Berners-Lee began developing the Web while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (aka CERN) in 1989 as a means of sharing data among the organization’s myriad PC brands and operating systems. “It was designed to be universal,” Berners-Lee told NPR in 2017. The whole point was breaking apart silos.” Berners-Lee even envisioned […]