The World Wide Web Foundation, pivotal in advancing internet accessibility and safety, is closing after 15 years, shifting its focus as global internet access reaches 70 per cent.

The seeds of the Web were planted much earlier than 1991. Amazingly, a very early version of the World Wide Web was floating around in at least one person's head way back during World War II.

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Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer ...

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Over the next year or two, the proposal was circulated and revised, resulting in an initial program being developed that was dubbed the World Wide Web. At least one expert has called the Web a ...

World Wide Web, founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 2009, is closing after 15 years dedicated to making the internet more accessible, affordable, and safe. With nearly 70% of the world now online ...

Berners-Lee and Leith cited the dramatically changed landscape of internet access as a key factor in their decision. The Foundation's original mission has evolved with most of the world now online, at ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. Since then, through his work with Inrupt Inc, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The Open Data Institute and the World ...

After 15 years working on developing a safer and more accessible internet, the World Wide Web Foundation (WF) is set to close. Foundation co-founders Rosemary Leith and Sir Tim Berners-Lee ...

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Founded in 2009 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the ‘World Wide Web Foundation’ (commonly known as WWWF) was established to create an open, safe and accessible internet for all. At a time when only 20 ...