The History of the Web

The World Wide Web Foundation began as a way to bring the web to everyone. In these trying times, it is needed more than ever.

There are plenty who make the case that the web makes us lonely. But sometimes, the opposite is true.

Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]

Before the web, Gopher offered a way to connect to the Internet and share documents. And if things had gone a little differently, it might even be what we use to surf information today.