Web founder Berners-Lee founded the Foundation to promote the future of Web

Tim Berners-Lee, founder of World Wide Web, is about to create a foundation to expand existing web functions and deliver the Internet to every corner of the world.

The World Wide Web Foundation will be established early next year. Berners-Lee said at a meeting in Washington, D.C that the Foundation aims to promote open and free web. The Foundation will promote democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of network access.

In addition, one focus of the Foundation is to help 80% of the world's population that are not connected to the internet achieve web access. Berners-Lee said we will try to expand the Web capacity so that everyone in the world can access it. Berners-Lee is now a professor at MIT.

Berners-Lee admitted that this is a very big goal, but it is important that the Web benefit all of us, not executives with the latest handheld devices.

When asked about his views on the foundation and the future of the Web, Berners-Lee said his thoughts are very limited and the new generation of Internet users should regard the Web as a blank piece of paper. If everything I want can be done, we may not be so far away.

Berners-Lee mentioned two goals of the future Web, promoting new forms of democracy and improving human health. The Foundation will also focus on web standards, interoperability, and Web science.

The World Wide Web Foundation is provided by the Knight Foundation with a $5 million seed fund. The Knight Foundation is committed to improving the journalism in the United States. The president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, Albert to ibarguen, said web is news, an important tool for free speech and publishing.

Berners-Lee is still skeptical about providing web access to remote areas of the world, because the basic needs of people there are healthcare, food, and clean water. Our people in the Internet connection area should understand what they really need before their painstaking efforts.

However, an African missionary told Berners-Lee one thing, where one learned English by reading the Bible and then provided translation services for the missionary through the Internet, Berners-Lee said, people there can make money for themselves through the Web.

Berners-Lee invented the hypertext web in 1989. At that time, he was a programmer at CERN (European quantum physics laboratory. In 1990, he designed the first Web client and server. He designed the HTML language and HTTP protocol.

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