The 1957 launch of the satellite Sputnik revealed the technological capabilities of the Soviet Union, and Cold War rivalry encouraged the United States to gear up. President Eisenhower established the ...

In 1989, young software engineer Tim Berners Lee set out to solve a simple problem at CERN how to share information between ...

The commonly held image of the American Web pioneer is that of a twenty-something, bespectacled computer geek hunched over his Unix box in the wee hours of the morning, surrounded by the detritus of ...

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 ...

Well, it didn't, exactly. As with many inventions, in order to understand how today's Web developed, you have to look farther back than its official introduction. The seeds of the Web were planted ...

On this day in 1990, physicist Tim Berners-Lee circulated a memo for a relatively modest information sharing proposal that would go on to revolutionise commerce, writes Eliot Wilson At 35, Tim Berners ...

Fred Martin receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Google. The internet is a global collection of computers that know how to send messages to one another. Practically everything ...

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

If you’ve ever used a hyperlink — a bit of typically underlined online text like this that, when clicked, helpfully takes you to another website or document — you should thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a ...

Tabitha A. Scott, CEM, CDSM is a partner at Epic Pivot with 20+ years of global leadership in investments, innovation and transformation. Networks are the threads that stitch our businesses together.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tim Berners-Lee is a Creator for the World Wide Web with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Speech. The year with the highest average ...