{"id":20247,"date":"2025-09-28T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free-tim-berners-lee\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:38:19","slug":"why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free-tim-berners-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free-tim-berners-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation \u2013 and here\u2019s why it\u2019s still worth fighting for<\/p>\n

I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.<\/p>\n

I relentlessly petitioned bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea \u201c<\/em>a little eccentric\u201d <\/em>but eventually gave in and let me work on it. <\/em>I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies: the internet and hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding \u201clinks\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nI was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.
\nI relentlessly petitioned bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea \u201ca little eccentric\u201d but eventually gave in and let me work on it. I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies: the internet and hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding \u201clinks\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation \u2013 and here\u2019s why it\u2019s still worth fighting for I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was …<\/p>\n

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