Yahoo News | ~ As the web turns 30, is it an 'out-of-control monster'? ~ | Blogger: According to this story: .. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 30 years ago while working at CERN. Three decades later he has warned that his creation has been "hijacked by crooks" that may spell its destruction.. Berners-Lee was responsible for CERN's internal directory but was interested in ways to allow the thousands of scientists around the world who cooperated with the lab to more easily share their work. His vision for "a decentralised information management system" soon gave birth to the web. Primitive forms of the internet -- a network linking computers -- had previously existed, but it was the World Wide Web that allowed web pages to be collected and accessed with a browser.. Fluckiger, now retired, hailed the web as one of three major inventions in the 20th century that enabled the digital society, alongside the Internet Protocol (IP) and Google's search algorithms. But he lamented the "online bullying, fake news, and mass hysteria" that flourish online as well as threats to privacy. "One has to ask oneself if we did not, in the end, create a completely out-of-control monster." - 'Crooks and trolls' - |

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