Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN (in 1989)
the current principales like “Respect and protect people’s privacy and personal data to build online trust” are listed at contractfortheweb.org
try out the first website at CERN – and in the entire world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web was hosted on it’s NeXT computer – using line mode browser simulator

The web was always meant to be a platform for creativity, collaboration, and free invention – but that’s not what we are seeing today
Berners-Lee
He and John Bruce founded back in 2018 a privacy focused company, the main idea is that user can control their data in online storage entities called Personal Online Data Stores (Pods) – the Enterprise Solid Server was launched to provide that service to customers
“Internet, a new human right” on one hand the EU discuss at a round table with Berners-Lee about the principles of internet @EU-Press – on the other hand initate a law about the “challenges” and “balance” about encryption (similar to the five eyes)

The progression of the Web sofar from a network of information (Web 1.0) to a network of people (Web 2.0/Social Media) followed by a network of things (Web 3.0/IoT)
The Best Is Yet To Come
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