The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE. He created the web in 1989, as a way to organize his own projects. The Web has grown rapidly since then. In 1992 there were 100 sites on it, as of last May there were 22,000. BERNERS-LEE is dedicated to keeping the Web open as a public good. He now works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he heads the World Wide Web Consortium, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing standards, protocols and new software for the Web. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE
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