How the World Wide Web led to an internet revolution

As the world thanks Tim Berners-Lee for making the web public some 25 years ago, here's a look at a few key developments that resulted in how we use the internet today.

WWWorries? Inventor of Web laments coming-of-age woes

Speaking to reporters at CERN, the physics research center outside Geneva where he invented the web, Berners-Lee said users of the web had found it “not so pretty” recently.

Jet2holidays ready to fill void left by Thomas Cook's collapse

Jet2holidays' chief executive Steve Heapy says that the company would continue and expand operations in Turkey.

Web inventor Berners-Lee launches plan to stop internet abuse

Credited with laying the groundwork for the web – the universe of multimedia webpages accessible via the internet – in 1989, the computer scientist has since last year been developing the so-called Contract for the Web.

Nigerians turn to technology to fight hunger

A young software engineer Oscar Ekponimo developed an app, Chowberry, which connects grocery stores with non-profits and non-profits with hungry people.

Microsoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US company

Apple Inc tops the list at over $1 trillion after crossing that threshold in September. Microsoft’s market capitalisation was Wall Street’s highest in late 1998 through early 2000 before the dot-com bubble burst.

World Wide Web celebrates its 30th anniversary | Money Talks

The inventor of the World Wide Web has called for more control over his creation. Tim Berners-Lee has spoken at the 30th anniversary of the web at CERN, the physics research centre outside Geneva, where he invented the web that changed humanity. Julia Lyu...

Iran says exercising restraint despite 'unacceptable' US sanctions

Qatar is trying to "defuse escalating tensions" across the Persian Gulf, Al Jazeera reports amid allegations of oil tanker sabotage, a drone attack by Yemen's Iranian-allied rebels and deployment of US warships and bombers to the region.

NewsFeed – 30 years of the world wide web, what will the next 30 years bring?

- The Internet has not become what its inventor wanted. Is it too late to change? - Indian soap advert leaves some in a lather - #trashtag challenge. Cleaning up the Earth, one post at a time - Whale eats man. Man survives to tell the tale #Newsfeed #...

Money Talks: Japan’s latest J-Pop band “Virtual Currency Girls”

At the start of this century, almost any company that added .com to its name saw its stock surge. Now rebranding yourself as a 'Bitcoin' or 'blockchain' firm is having the same effect. But when a Japanese girl band does the same, you know that something i...