Tim Berners-Lee
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 ideaWhy I gave the world wide web away for freeMy 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
John NaughtonThe networkerThe internet is in decline – it needs rewildingThe 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 says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age
July 2023
John NaughtonThe networkerChatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled webBig 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 interviewTim 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
Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right
Tim Berners-LeeThe 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 EverythingThe early days of the world wide web: Chips with Everything podcastAlex 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 creationThe 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
Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how
John HarrisOur lives, online and off, depend upon decentralising power on the internet, says the Guardian columnist John Harris
November 2018
Nick Cave is showing us a new, gentler way to use the internet
Russell CunninghamThe songwriter’s one-to-one correspondence with fans is touching, says Russell Cunningham, a Guardian production editor