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On 12 March 2014, around the world, people are joining Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee in wishing the World Wide Web a happy 25th birthday. To mark the occasion, everyone is encouraged to share birthday greetings on social media using #web25. Berners-Lee said:

“The Web’s billions of users are what have made it great. I hope that many of them will join me today in celebrating this important milestone. I also hope this anniversary will spark a global conversation about our need to defend principles that have made the Web successful, and to unlock the Web’s untapped potential. I believe we can build a Web that truly is for everyone: one that is accessible to all, from any device, and one that empowers all of us to achieve our dignity, rights and potential as humans. Tell us about your dream for the Web with #web25.”

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Web25 in the press

The Web Turns 25…Sort of, Mark Fischetti, Scientific American
NBC Today Show
The Web at 25: Revisiting Tim Berners-Lee’s Amazing Proposal Document, Harry McCracken, Time Magazine
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web needs bill of rights, BBC
25 years after inventing the web, Tim Berners-Lee invites users to help draft global “bill of rights”, David Meyer, Gigaom
Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs its freedom, Kieron Monks, CNN Tech
Tim Berners-Lee: 25 years on, the Web still needs work, Stephen Shankland, CNET
World Wide Web turns 25, Kristie Lu Stout, CNN News Stream
As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future Nick Bilton, New York Times
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web needs bill of rights , BBC News
Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web, Liat Clark, Wired UK
25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday, John Naughton, The Guardian
Infographic: Celebrating 25 years of the world wide web, Ishbel Macleod, The Drum
Tim Berners-Lee interview with Yahoo! Tech Talk at SXSW 2014
W3C boss Jeff Jaffe explains how the web will beat smartphone apps and keep growing
Privacy ‘fundamental to freedom’, Press Association

Information about Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the World Wide Web and one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century’, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a scientist and academic whose work has transformed almost every aspect of our lives.

Having invented the Web in 1989 while working at CERN and subsequently working to ensure it was made freely available to all, Berners-Lee is now dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Web’s future. He is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a global Web standards organization he founded in 1994 to lead the Web to its full potential. He is also a Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure the Web serves humanity by establishing it as a global public good and a basic right. In 2012 he co-founded the Open Data Institute (ODI) which advocates for Open Data in the UK and globally. Sir Tim has advised a number of governments and corporations on ongoing digital strategies. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim presently holds academic posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), (USA) and the University of Southampton (UK.)

Sir Tim has been the recipient of multiple accolades. These include receiving the first Queen’ Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and being knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 2004. He has received more than 15 honorary doctorates, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Finland Millennium Prize in 2004. In 2007, Berners-Lee was awarded the UK’s Order of Merit – a personal gift of the monarch limited to just 24 living recipients. In 2012, he played a starring role in the opening ceremony for the Olympics, where, in front of an audience of some 900 million, he tweeted: “This is for everyone.”

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