Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has sold the source code of the Web to an anonymous buyer for $5.4 million. The buyer will not receive any unique usage rights but the sale marks a ...

As director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Berners-Lee has overseen development of the web with the goal of maintaining its neutrality as a platform.

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, CERN never funded the project, although by September 1990, Sendall granted Berners-Lee time to work on it independently.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, isn't resting on his laurels. He recognizes how much of his creation has spun out of control, and is promoting a better, more ethical and ...