Inventor of the World Wide Web Wants us to Reclaim our Data from Tech Giants
The creator of the Web is trying to save it and us. Here’s how it works:
The creator of the Internet will soon be working towards its recovery. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee first introduced the idea of the website in 1989, when he created it. Despite being 33 years old today he thinks technology is manipulated by people and manipulates people by offering information to them in a biased way. Berners-Lee said some people thought tech could save the world. It seems he's attempting an intermediate fix to get it back to Web3.1.
How the World Wide Web began?
Berners-Lee was born 1955 in London, studying Physics at Oxford University. In the 1980's he started working at CERN where he created the first prototype for web-sites. The goal of the study is to enable science to communicate data in a variety of ways. The Internet isn't the same thing as the Internet. Internet existed before 1970 but nobody knew it existed. Electrical and computer scientists Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn first invented IP, an electronic protocol enabling computer data sharing with other computers.
How the Internet took off
The software was published by CERN in 1993. Then Web 2.0 was born. It's a readable type of Internet but only those that know coding know it. Eventually Web2.0 became popular. Now we can interact more with the internet as creators and publish whatever we want through large platforms such as Google. But it is never available. Some of those firms will then take your data and use it to advertise their services.
Inventor of the world wide web wants us to reclaim our data from tech giants
The Internet has been evolving since Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet. He thinks we should reclaim our personal information. Through their startup Inrupt, the company has created a personal data-based pod called a solidPod. The system allows users to control the way they view their data and control the apps they use. The system does not require the user to log in or access the website in a single location. Users may buy pods from many web sites hosted by Amazon.
A safer solution
The idea behind this web was born in his lab at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. His solution to Web 2.0 s problems is an advanced layer of protocols which gives users their personalized username and address when attempting the login procedure. Eventually, he launched a new company called Inrupt for Solid's launch. The BERNER LEE website is accessible through a browser. The app isn’t just an app, it’s the “Pods” that store and share information. But isn't this just another way of storing the publics information for use elsewhere? We'll have to wait and see.