Web full of energy but also has dark side
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The founder of the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has spoken about it 25 years after he helped to create it. He said it is a force for good, but it has a negative side. Mr Berners-Lee said: "Everywhere I look I see a mass of energy…and also in some places, they are using the web for organised protests against oppressive regimes." He was sad at the growing amount of trolling and negativity. He said it was staggering that normal people would, "suddenly become very polarised in their opinions and will suddenly become very hateful instead of very loving."
Berners-Lee was at London's Science Museum for a new exhibition called the Information Age. It will include the server that hosted the first ever website. The machine still has a note on it written by Berners-Lee that warns: "This machine is a server. Do not power it down." Berners-Lee is a director of an organisation called the World Wide Web Consortium, which looks after the Web's development. He said: "Maybe we will be able to build web-based tools that help us keep people on the path of collaborating rather than fighting." He hopes the Web will stay a force for positive change.
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