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Google Celebrates As The World Wide Web Turns 30 Years Old!
The World Wide Web Is 30! For many of you reading this, I daresay that you have grown up in a world where the internet has always been a thing. For some of us older creatures, however, the dawn of the internet was the start of a brave new world!…
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WWW Inventor Attacks New Undemocratic UK Surveillance Law
The Investigatory Powers Bill, nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter, which requires UK ISPs to record the internet history of every user within the country for twelve months, and grants police, intelligence, and government departments access to that information, as given Royal Assent today, meaning it has officially become law. The law…
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The First Public Website Celebrates 25th Birthday
Yesterday, we reached a big landmark in the history of the world wide web, the 25th birthday of the first public website to appear online. The site first came online on the 6th of August 1991, and unlike many websites which have come and gone, this one can still be…
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World Wide Web Inventor Says “No” to Internet.org
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web infrastructure for the internet, is vehemently opposed to Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org plan to bring a limited internet to poor countries, an initiative that has long been criticised for violating net neutrality and branded an internet “ghetto”. “When it comes to compromising…
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Inventor of the World Wide Web Thinks ‘Right to be Forgotten’ is “Dangerous”
Europe’s new ‘right to be forgotten’ law is designed to protect people’s privacy, allowing them, through a court ruling, to have information about them excised from the internet. Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the worldwide web, however, believes that ‘right to be forgotten’ is a bad thing, one that erodes free…
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