Tim Berners-Lee: ‘You can do anything with a computer that you can imagine’

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, spent an hour enthusiastically exhorting a crowd at SXSW to use HTML5 and build applications on the Open Web Platform. He also offered a host of pithy comments on the Web's history and future.

World Wide Web Foundation releases first-ever global web index (U.S. ranks second)

A trillion public pages and 3.4 billion users, but the goal of connecting the entire world is still only 40 percent complete.