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Encryption and secrecy ensure that the dark side of the web stays shrouded in mystery but a city-based workshop aims to lift the lid off this elusive space.

Delving into the dark side

The Dark Web makes up a small part of the Internet but is a highly busy space, brimming with illicit activities.

5 Jan 2019 12:00 AM

The physics research center outside Geneva where he invented the web, Berners-Lee said users of the web had found it not so pretty recently. (Photo: World Wide Web Foundation)

Berners-Lee says World Wide Web, at 30, must emerge from 'adolescence'

Berners-Lee said many people now felt unsure about whether the web was a force for good.

13 March 2019 4:12 AM

Berners-Lee, who hatched the Web in 1989, said a sense of optimism about the internet had been damaged by abuses of personal data, online hate speech, political manipulation and the centralization of power among a small group of major tech firms. (Photo: Tim Berners-Lee Via TedEx YouTube video)

A timeline of the internet

In October 1969, scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) attempt to exchange data between two...

12 March 2019 12:25 PM

Berners-Lee, who hatched the Web in 1989, said a sense of optimism about the internet had been damaged by abuses of personal data, online hate speech, political manipulation and the centralization of power among a small group of major tech firms. (Photo: Tim Berners-Lee Via TedEx YouTube video)

At 30, World Wide Web not the web we wanted,' inventor says

The 63-year-old Englishman is calling on governments, companies and citizens to work together, and wants the web to...

12 March 2019 10:54 AM

This inequality is a barrier to wider equality, and we know it most affects those who are already marginalized _ people in developing countries, those on low incomes, and of course, women and girls, Tim Berners-Lee said. Men remain 21 percent more likely than women to be online, and 52 percent more likely in the least developing countries. (File Photo | AP)

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says digital divide should be...

Some 3.5 billion people nearly half the world have missed out on the lifeline the internet has provided during the...

12 Jun 2020 1:24 PM

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | Behind all social media ills: Not privacy, but...

Unchecked proliferation of anonymous accounts has weaponised Internet, turning it into a veritable orgy of hate violence...

5 Nov 2022 6:30 PM

$Facebook has also launched a \journalism project\ that aims to support the news ecosystem.$ Technology

Web needs rethink to stop -"nasty-" ideas spreading, says its creator

Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web as a platform on top of the internet in 1989

10 April 2017 4:18 PM