CERN celebrates 30th anniversary of World Wide Web

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While the web has created opportunity, given marginalized groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, Berners-Lee said that content produced on the web are not as reliable as it used to be, as it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit.

Also as pointed out by other experts at the panel, the web is increasingly centralizing as the next billion people getting online may be increasingly dependent on major Internet giants like Facebook and Google, who have been playing more of a gatekeeper role during the centralization and have "basically built surveillance machines."

To address those problems, Berners-Lee suggested, in an open letter published on Monday, creating both laws and code to minimize state-sponsored hacking and attacks, criminal behavior, and online harassment; redesigning systems in a way that change incentives; understanding existing systems and modeling possible new ones or tweaking those we already have.

In March 1989, while working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first proposal for an Internet-based hypertext system to link and access information across different computers. By the end of 1990, he had implemented key components, namely html, http and URL, and created the first Web server, browser and editor.

In April 1993, CERN released the latest version of the WWW software into the public domain and made it freely available for anyone to use and improve. This has since encouraged the use of the Web and society to benefit from it. 

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