Connected Magazine

The web is broken but can still be fixed

It’s tempting to think that we’re past the point of return but as Tim Berners-Lee is the first to acknowledge, all is not lost

Believe it or not, it’s now 35 years since the world wide web was created. Despite the huge impact it has had on all of our lives, its recent anniversary seemed to pass many people by.

Believe it or not, it’s now 35 years since the world wide web was created. Despite the huge impact it has had on all of our lives, its recent anniversary seemed to pass many people by.

Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist, is credited with inventing the world-changing technology in 1989 while working at CERN, the Swiss particle physics research centre.

Berners-Lee submitted a proposal in March of that year which outlined the principal concepts ...