@30, World Wide Web still facing growing pains
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At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and hacking, its creator says, trumpeting a call to make it better for humanity.
Tim Berners-Lee yesterday joined a celebration of the web and reminisced about his invention at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, starting with a proposal published on March 12, 1989. It opened the way to a technological revolution that has transformed the way people buy goods, share ideas, get information and much more.
It鈥檚 also become a place where tech titans scoop up personal data, rival governments spy and seek to scuttle elections, and hate speech and vitriol have thrived 鈥 taking the web far from its roots as a space for progress-oriented minds to collaborate.
As of late 2018, half of the world was online, with the other half often struggling to secure access.
Speaking at a 鈥淲eb@30鈥 conference at CERN, Berners-Lee acknowledged that a sense among many who are already on the web has become: 鈥淲hoops! The web is not the web we wanted in every respect.鈥
His World Wide Web Foundation wants to enlist governments, companies and citizens to take a greater role in shaping the web for good under the principles of its 鈥淐ontract for the Web,鈥 which calls on governments to make sure everyone can connect to the Internet.
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