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January 2026

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet

Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

September 2025

The big idea
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

August 2024

I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered

A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and its lessons about the modern world

May 2024

The networker
double quotation markThe internet is in decline – it needs rewilding
John Naughton
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

November 2023

‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold saysgender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age

July 2023

The networker
double quotation markChatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web
John Naughton
Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source

June 2021

Tim Berners-Lee defends auction of NFT representing web’s source code

NFT representing Tim Berners-Lee’s source code for the web to go on sale

March 2021

The big interview
Tim Berners-Lee: ‘We need social networks where bad things happen less’

Tim Berners-Lee says too many young people are excluded from web

January 2021

Australia's proposed media code could break the world wide web, says the man who invented it

Tim Berners-Lee says the plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news content undermines the web’s ‘fundamental principle’

June 2020

double quotation markCovid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right

Tim Berners-Lee
The internet eased lockdown life for millions. But millions more still can’t get online, and that’s fundamentally unfair, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

April 2020

The Guardian view on internet access: life, death and learning

Editorial: The coronavirus pandemic is showing that the digital divide has serious repercussions for people in the UK and around the world

March 2020

Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Berners-Lee

Inventor of world wide web calls for urgent action to make cyberspace safer for women and girls

November 2019

Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web

Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity

March 2019

Chips with Everything
The early days of the world wide web: Chips with Everything podcast
Alex Hern speaks to Sir Tim Berners-Lee 30 years after he sent off the proposal for what would eventually become the world wide web. Jordan Erica Webber chats to Elle Hunt and Alex about their earliest memories of using the web

Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the world wide web: 'We can get the web we want'

What started out as an idea for a way scientists could share information went on to change the world. Three decades later, its founder reflects on his creation

The Guardian view on the world wide web: we wove a tangle

Editorial: Thirty years ago, a physicist dreamed up a way to organise information from multiple computers all on one screen. The world will never be the same

January 2019

double quotation markTogether we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how

John Harris
Our lives, online and off, depend upon decentralising power on the internet, says the Guardian columnist John Harris

November 2018

double quotation markNick Cave is showing us a new, gentler way to use the internet

Russell Cunningham
The songwriter’s one-to-one correspondence with fans is touching, says Russell Cunningham, a Guardian production editor

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