In just 15 years, the World Wide Web has gone through many iterations: document-sharing tool for researchers, key source of news and information, shopping mecca, multimedia playground, and an ...

Thirty years after the World Wide Web first expanded from Europe to North America, Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of ...

On the 30th birthday of the world wide web, its creator Tim Berners-Lee tells TIME that data must be taken from companies and given to users ...

The World Wide Web celebrates its 25th anniversary, with most people appreciating its presence according to a Pew Research report.

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

Tim Berners-Lee, who received a $1.2 million cash prize Tuesday for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if he had charged money for his inventions.

This time he relaunched his "World Wide Web" project in a way that would more likely secure its success. On August 6, 1991, he published an explanation of WWW on the alt.hypertext usegroup.

The World Wide Web was created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, CERN never funded the project, although by September 1990, Sendall granted Berners-Lee time to work on it independently.

Missing Link: Tim Berners-Lee turns 70 – the architect of the World Wide Web The man who gave us the WWW celebrates his 70th birthday and continues to fight for a free web. A look at his ...