Sir Tim Berners-Lee spoke to the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones Global action is required to tackle the web's "downward plunge to a dysfunctional future", its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.

But he didn’t realise that it would change the world. Five hundred years later, in 1989, Tim Berners Lee had an idea. He wondered if he could invent a better way for computers to link up and ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee described the renaming of a Tory Twitter account as a fact checking body as "impersonation". "That was really brazen," he told the BBC. "It was unbelievable they would do that." ...

The first website and server were set live by Tim Berners-Lee on December 20, 1990. The site was initially only available to other CERN staff, but it became accessible to anyone with an internet ...

Tim Berners-Lee was a researcher there, and he thought he had a way to help organize information on the network. His solution was based on a program he had written in 1980 called "Enquire-Within ...

SIR Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has called for the creation of an online bill of rights similar to the Magna Carta. Berners-Lee said that a system to guarantee the rights ...