The World Wide Web Foundation, pivotal in advancing internet accessibility and safety, is closing after 15 years, shifting its focus as global internet access reaches 70 per cent.

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

Berners-Lee and Leith cited the dramatically changed landscape of internet access as a key factor in their decision. The Foundation's original mission has evolved with most of the world now online, at ...

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer ...

After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. In a letter [PDF] shared via the organization's website, co-founders Sir Tim ...

World Wide Web, founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 2009, is closing after 15 years dedicated to making the internet more accessible, affordable, and safe. With nearly 70% of the world now online ...

After 15 years working on developing a safer and more accessible internet, the World Wide Web Foundation (WF) is set to close. Foundation co-founders Rosemary Leith and Sir Tim Berners-Lee ...

Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is set for September 2025. U.S. rights were acquired by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. Since then, through his work with Inrupt Inc, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The Open Data Institute and the World ...

Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were other ways to go online, with Ohio-based CompuServe being the first to offer a consumer-oriented service on September 24 ...

However, none of these services were able to fully adapt to the huge shift that came with the internet and the World Wide Web, which was a wilder place where anyone could create their own website. AOL ...

The World Wide Web Foundation (W3F), a prominent advocate for an open and inclusive internet, is shutting down its operations. This unexpected news has sent shockwaves through the digital rights ...