Gerne @freifunk unterstützen 
Wie und warum?
https://isoc-sig.beta.freifunk.net/
In einem zunehmend nicht besser werdenden #WorldWideWeb, ein echter Lichtblick. 
Was ist #Freifunk? https://freifunk.net/
New User Trends on Wikipedia
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/
"The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along. You couldn’t use it to buy stuff and have it delivered the next day, but you could communicate with people, old and new friends, anywhere, instantly. A true, astonishing marvel."
By @philgyford: https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/115352274818575263
This probably means that someone should modernize HTTP by creating HTTP/1.4.
The HTTP-protocol is (also) a de facto layer-4 transport-layer-protocol.
It might have been intended to be a layer-7 application-layer-protocol, but — look at how people are using it.
Applications are built on top of the HTTP-protocol somewhat similarly to how people decades ago would have built applications on top of the TCP-protocol.
Even the Fediverse uses the HTTP-protocol in this way — as a layer-4 transport-layer-protocol.
"the limited imagination of oppression"
This video perfectly captures what's happening both in the fictional, superhero world of the burgeoning DCU, and our day to day reality where phenomenal discoveries are used for petty and oppressive purposes rather than for the betterment of humanity.
Google more-or-less created 2 new versions of the HTTP protocol — HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 —
But didn't bother make either of them (officially) support UTF-8 in the HTTP request.
@timbl @w3c Oh, and as a #NeXT veteran myself, I thoroughly enjoyed all the discussions of NeXT and the InterfaceBuilder etc having been so instrumental to the quick 6-month project that would create the first web browser and editor and thereby launch the #WorldWideWeb !
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It – The New Yorker
Berners-Lee is building tools that aim to resist the Big Tech platforms, give users control over their own data, and prevent A.I. from hollowing out the open web. Illustration by Tim Bouckley.Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
By Julian Lucas, September 29, 2025
Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, in 1989, but people informed of this often respond with a joke: Wasn’t that Al Gore? Still, his creation keeps growing, absorbing our reality in the process. If you’re reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting. He’s the necessary condition behind everything from Amazon to Wikipedia, and if A.I. brings about what Sam Altman recently called “the gentle singularity”—or else buries us in slop—that, too, will be an outgrowth of his global collective consciousness.
Somehow, the man responsible for all of this is a mild-mannered British Unitarian who loves model trains and folk music, and recently celebrated his seventieth birthday with a picnic on a Welsh mountain. An emeritus professor at Oxford and M.I.T., he divides his time between the U.K., Canada, and Concord, Massachusetts, where he and his wife, Rosemary Leith, live in a stout greige house older than the Republic. On the summer morning when I visited, geese honked and cicadas whined. Leith, an investor and a nonprofit director who co-founded a dot-com-era women’s portal called Flametree, greeted me at the door. “We’re basically guardians of the house,” she said, showing me its antique features. I almost missed Berners-Lee in the converted-barn kitchen, standing, expectantly, in a blue plaid shirt. He shook my hand, then glanced at Leith. “Are you a canoer?” she asked. Minutes later, he and I were gliding across a pond behind the house.
Berners-Lee is bronzed and wiry, with sharp cheekbones and faraway blue eyes, the right one underscored by an X-shaped wrinkle. There’s a recalcitrant blond tuft at the back of his balding head; in quiet moments, I could picture Ralph Fiennes playing him in a movie—the internet’s careworn steward, ruminating on some techno-political conundrum. A twitchier figure emerged when he spoke. He muttered and trailed off, eyes darting, or froze midsentence, as though to buffer, before delivering a verbal torrent. It was the arrhythmia of a disciplined demeanor struggling with a restless mind. “Tim has always been difficult to understand,” a former colleague of his told me. “He speaks in hypertext.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
By Tim Berners-Lee, Sun 28 Sep 2025 07.00 EDT121
I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.
I relentlessly petitioned bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea “a little eccentric” but eventually gave in and let me work on it.I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies: the internet and hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding “links”.
I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale. If you could put anything on it, then after a while, it would have everything on it.
But for the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my Cern managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone.
Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments. We see ubiquitous algorithms that are addictive by design and damaging to our teenagers’ mental health. Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web.
On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product. Our data, even if anonymised, is sold on to actors we never intended it to reach, who can then target us with content and advertising. This includes deliberately harmful content that leads to real-world violence, spreads misinformation, wreaks havoc on our psychological wellbeing and seeks to undermine social cohesion.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian
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"Oggi il #web non è più libero. Abbiamo bisogno di un ente no-profit come il #Cern che promuova la ricerca internazionale sull' #intelligenzaartificiale. Possiamo ridare potere agli individui e riprenderci il web. Non è troppo tardi". E' l'appello e il sogno di Tim Berners-Lee, l'informatico che oltre 35 anni fa immaginò proprio a Ginevra il #WorldWideWeb, poi reso accessibile gratuitamente a tutti cambiando la storia.
#BernersLee: Why I gave the #worldwideweb away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
Is #web still free today? No, not all of it. Large platforms harvesting users' data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments. Algorithms that are addictive by design and damaging to our mental health.
He also says "we need a Cern-like not-for-profit body driving forward international #AI research"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
Tim Berners-Lee questions whether the #WorldWideWeb is really free still: “On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product.”
Why I gave the world wide web away for free, Tim Berners-Lee
"I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever. Regulation and global governance are technically feasible, but reliant on political willpower. If we are able to muster it, we have the chance to restore the web as a tool for collaboration, creativity and compassion across cultural borders. We can re-empower individuals, and take the web back. It’s not too late."
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
#WorldWideWeb #W3 #PlatformCooperative #governance
When a web-server is returning a response for a directory, what is the magic file-name that it show look for?
Did you know the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is on the Fediverse at @timbl?
Tim's also got a new memoir: https://w3c.social/@timbl/115243018205563211
Thank you Tim for everything you've done to weave the web as we know it!
