The computer scientist and father of the World Wide Web (WWW), Tim Berners-Lee, stated that he does not trust Web3 for the decentralization of the web and insisted on his personal project Solid as a solution so that information is no longer in hands of certain technological platforms.

Berners-Lee recently pointed out at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon (Portugal) that technology companies “control the world and manipulate people by providing them with information”, in statements to EuroNews Next, in which he acknowledged that currently “there are many things that are wrong on the web”.

The scientist has spent years trying to create a free and decentralized web where information is open and does not depend on large technology companies. Precisely, Web3 advocates this characteristic of open infrastructure, with open source software, so that all users can participate in its development.

It should be remembered in this sense that within Web3 the application of the blockchain for the democratization of the web, the metaverse and the use of non-fungible tokens, better known as NFT, coexist.

However, the creator of the WWW believes that the blockchain is not the solution to this problem and that one must “understand what the terms” that are being discussed really mean, beyond the buzzwords.

“It is a real shame that the Ethereum people have taken the name of Web3 for the things they are doing with the blockchain. In fact, Web3 is not the web at all,” criticized the expert.

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Tim Berners-Lee defended his decision to auction as a non-fungible token (NFT) the source code of the World Wide Web (WWW), which follows the line of “the values ​​of the Web”, which will remain free and open.

Today started the auction by Sotheby’s of a NFT pack that includes almost 10,000 lines of WWW code and the implementations of the three languages ​​developed by Berners-Lee: HTML (HyperText Markup Language, the markup language for the elaboration of web pages), HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and URI (Uniform Resource Identifier).

It also includes some documents that explain how to use the application, considered the first browser in history; an animation of the code as it is being written and a letter written by Berners-Lee in 2021 reflecting on the creation of the WWW.

The engineer clarifies that with the auction he is not selling the Web, that it will continue to be “free and free”, as always, since “the central codes and protocols of the web are free of rights.”

He also points out that with this auction he is not selling the source code, but rather “an image” that he made with a Python program that he wrote, “of what the source code would look like if it were posted on the wall and signed by me.”

NFT is a technology based on ‘blockchain’ that guarantees the authenticity of a file in digital format as a work of art, as well as who is its owner. Berners-Lee says he has always been interested in whether this technology could be used to fund creative people, such as artists or musicians.

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“Every young person who cannot connect represents a missed opportunity for new ideas and innovations that could serve humanity,” lamented Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web (WWW), and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the Web Foundation in a manifesto with which they want to highlight the importance of Internet access to build a better future for all.

On the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the Web, which took place on March 12, Berners-Lee and Leith reflected on what the Web means to young people today, and its power as a “catalyst for change” to “create a better and fairer future.”

Only 33 % of children and those under 25 years of age in the world can access the Internet from their home, according to Unicef ​​data, which leaves more than 2.2 billion people in that age group without the possibility of connecting.

In order to bring the Internet to the whole world, they have calculated, through the Alliance for Affordable Internet, that it would take 428,000 million dollars in more than ten years (about 116 dollars per person) to provide quality broadband connection to the 3.7 billion people who are currently offline.

“The consequences of this exclusion affect everyone,” they warn, and assure in their manifesto that “as we did with electricity last century, we must recognize Internet access as a basic right and we must work to ensure that all young people can connect to a network that empowers them to shape their world.”

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