As the web turns 30, is it an 'out-of-control monster'?


  • TECH
  • Monday, 04 Mar 2019

Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. 

But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been "hijacked by crooks" that may spell its destruction. 

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