The man who created the World Wide Web talks about Solid, his ambitious plan to give us all a private place to store—and selectively share—our online data. A self-described “data nerd,” Berners-Lee ...

Solid (Social Linked Data) is a new web decentralization project, which “aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy”.

Not everyone thinks the web needs saving. After all, it's a bigger and more essential part of our lives than almost anyone could have predicted when Tim Berners-Lee first wrote a browser for what ...

How we interact online and use data might just change with the Solid project. Learn more about Solid's origins, how the tech works and real-world applications. Web3? More like Solid. Solid offers its ...

Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own digital identities and data, may be coming together. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt, whose Project Liberty ...

That snub may seem to clash with Berners-Lee’s recent actions. The 67-year-old now campaigns to save his “dysfunctional” brainchild from the clutches of Big Tech. He’s also made a cool $5.4million by ...

In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It’s a far cry from what the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, intended to create. He ...