Gerne @freifunk unterstützen 
Wie und warum?
https://isoc-sig.beta.freifunk.net/
In einem zunehmend nicht besser werdenden #WorldWideWeb, ein echter Lichtblick. 
Was ist #Freifunk? https://freifunk.net/
"the limited imagination of oppression"
This video perfectly captures what's happening both in the fictional, superhero world of the burgeoning DCU, and our day to day reality where phenomenal discoveries are used for petty and oppressive purposes rather than for the betterment of humanity.
@timbl @w3c Oh, and as a #NeXT veteran myself, I thoroughly enjoyed all the discussions of NeXT and the InterfaceBuilder etc having been so instrumental to the quick 6-month project that would create the first web browser and editor and thereby launch the #WorldWideWeb !
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
By Tim Berners-Lee, Sun 28 Sep 2025 07.00 EDT121
I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.
I relentlessly petitioned bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea “a little eccentric” but eventually gave in and let me work on it.I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies: the internet and hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding “links”.
I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale. If you could put anything on it, then after a while, it would have everything on it.
But for the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my Cern managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone.
Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments. We see ubiquitous algorithms that are addictive by design and damaging to our teenagers’ mental health. Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web.
On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product. Our data, even if anonymised, is sold on to actors we never intended it to reach, who can then target us with content and advertising. This includes deliberately harmful content that leads to real-world violence, spreads misinformation, wreaks havoc on our psychological wellbeing and seeks to undermine social cohesion.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian
#2025 #America #Education #FreeGift #History #Libraries #Library #Science #Technology #TheGuardian #TimBernersLee #UnitedStates #World #WorldWideWeb #WWW
Tim Berners-Lee questions whether the #WorldWideWeb is really free still: “On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product.”
Did you know the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is on the Fediverse at @timbl?
Tim's also got a new memoir: https://w3c.social/@timbl/115243018205563211
Thank you Tim for everything you've done to weave the web as we know it!
Mention of politics and acct blocking
The Internet. I wonder if this thing will take off. 
the berkeley systems kitchen on october 12, 1997 @ 6:50 PM
https://web.archive.org/web/20000302152522fw_/http://www.berksys.com/cafeslack/takepic.html
sierra.com january 1997
to my knowledge, there is no formal name for this web site design style of the late 1990s.
this style is incredibly difficult to replicate in css, as bitmapped images and tables play a huge role in getting the formatting just right
https://web.archive.org/web/19970113092911/http://www1.sierra.com:80/
does anyone else want to help rebuild the wuarchive.wustl.edu anonymous ftp 
my first ftp site. i will always remember you for your /pub/incoming/.warez/win95beta/ my dear friend.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110414181344/http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/
#WorldWideWeb picks of the day:
@timbl - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
@w3c - International standards org for World Wide Web
@wai - Web Accessibility Initiative from W3C
@A11yAwareness - Tips about web accessibility
@owa - Non-profit org trying to protect open web from tech giants
@openwebdocs - Collective of technical writers documenting open web tech
@servo - New type of browser engine, experimental phase
@WebKitGTK - Web browser engine in GNOME
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"On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Happy birthday, web!
The Vision for W3C has been officially published as a ratified W3C Statement: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-vision-20250729/
As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com @c@w3c.social), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board (AB) effort, and grateful to everyone who contributed and gave feedback that helped improve the document.
Writing down and openly publishing our collective values and principles is an important step forward for W3C. We now have a shared reference to both guide our priorities and cite to help resolve differences in opinion (rather than having to appeal to authority).
The AB (@w3.org/wiki/AB @ab@w3c.social) has prioritized work on the Vision project for many years (https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/Vision), and personally, co-leading this project during my time on the AB has been inspiring, challenging, and a source of many lessons learned. Lots more to share on all that. For now, happy to take a moment to celebrate this milestone.
#w3cVision #VisionForW3C #WorldWideWeb #W3C (@w3.org @w3c@w3c.social)
#openWeb #webStandards
More posts:
* https://www.w3.org/news/2025/vision-for-w3c-is-a-w3c-statement/
* https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-a-manifesto-for-our-operations-and-decision-making/
@xandra thinking about this and some of the comments and places they lead, I've been reading about #IndieWeb. I well remember dial up and how the #worldWideWeb seemed so exciting, so domain acquired cutlerweb is in the making. Nothing to see yet, give me a year or two hehe.
Bill Atkinson: Der Zeitlose Pionier der Computertechnologie
Die Welt der digitalen Innovation hat am 5. Juni 2025 einen ihrer brillantesten Köpfe verloren. Bill Atkinson, der berühmte Macintosh-Pionier und Erfinder von HyperCard, verstarb i
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/bill-atkinson-der-zeitlose-pionier-der-computertechnologie/
#News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillAtkinson #Computerindustrie #Fotografie #HyperCard #Innovation #Macintosh #MagicSlate #QuickDraw #Technologie #WorldWideWeb
"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
back when i first joined mastodon, one of the many surprising things i learned was that gopher had made a return to the public sphere after decades of obscurity.
i grew up with gopher and archie and veronica and many other www-alt protocols before getting hooked on the world wide web. they taught me how to hunt for things, in a time when web search didn't exist yet.
i've spent every day of the past week adding a new feature to kiki that i'm incredibly proud of, after hearing from several folks - namely @tomjennings and @scott, who (like me) are hungry for an information-dense and cruft-free internet
this works by turning your kiki pages into gopherspace pages through some formatting magic and textmunging. so now, you can host your kiki instance on both the www and in gopherspace, simultaneously.
it will be released in an upcoming version of kiki, available soon here: https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki
i can't stop laughing at the thought of someone seeing #kiki's NCSA Mosaic/Netscape 1.x theme in 2025 and wondering if the entire world wide web was entirely grey in 1994.
(it was)
if this doesn't do violence to the idea of software preservation, i don't know what could
Ambassador 
