Tim Berners-Lee calls for unity as the World Wide Web turns 30 years old.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor
of the World Wide Web (Getty)

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called on the public and politicians to “come together” to end its misuse in a letter to mark the technology’s 30th anniversary. 

The founder of the World Wide Web Foundation said the internet had created opportunities for good but had also become a space used by ‘scammers’ and ‘given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit’. 

First proposed by Sir Tim as an information management system in 1989 while he was working for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), around half of the world’s population is now online. 

Many of the world’s largest web-based companies, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, have come under scrutiny in recent years over data privacy issues and the rising spread of malicious and offensive content.

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By Metro Reporter.