At age 30, World Wide Web is 'not the web we wanted': Tim Berners-Lee

Berners-Lee cautioned it was important to strike a balance between oversight and freedom but difficult to agree what it should be

At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its creator says, trumpeting a call to make it better for humanity.

Tim Berners-Lee on Tuesday joined a celebration of the Web and reminisced about his invention at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, starting with a proposal published on March 12, 1989.

It opened the way to a technological revolution that has transformed the way people buy goods, share ideas, get information and much more.

It's also become a