As the Web Turns 30, Its Inventor Explains 3 Ways It Went Wrong—and How
to Fix It
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http://fortune.com/2019/03/11/internet-web-birtday-inventor-tim-berners-lee/
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web. It was 30 years ago that British
engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee effectively created the medium that has
made communication instantaneous and cheap, spawned a generation of
content surfers, launched many a billion-dollar business, and upended
nearly every industry.
To celebrate, Berners-Lee wrote a somber reflection on where the
web—which along the way lost its early capitalization—is today. “The web
has become a public square, a library, a doctor’s office, a shop, a
school, a design studio, an office, a cinema, a bank, and so much more,”
he wrote, but it is also rife with “dysfunction.” He then called on
governments, companies, and users alike to unite in combatting those
problems before they get worse.
“While the web has created opportunity, given marginalized groups a
voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity
for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all
kinds of crime easier to commit,” Berners-Lee wrote, before outlining
each of the three areas of dysfunctions in more detail:
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