The inventor of the World Wide Web plans to launch a new Internet on Google and Facebook

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, launches a startup that seeks to compete with Facebook, Amazon and Google.

The latest technology legend project, Inrupt, is a company based on Berners-Lee's open source platform Solid. Solid allows users to choose where their data is stored and which people are allowed to access what information.

In an exclusive interview with Fast SocietyBerners-Lee joked that the intent behind Inrupt was "world domination".

"We have to do it now," he said of the startup. "It's a historic moment."

The application uses Solid's technology to allow users to create their own "personal online data store" or POD. It can contain contact lists, to-do lists, a calendar, a music library and other personal and professional tools. It's like Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack and Spotify are all available on a single browser and at the same time.

What is unique in the online personal data store is that it is entirely up to the user who can access what type of information. The company calls this "personal empowerment through the data".

According to company general manager John Bruce, Inrupt's vision is to provide the right resources, processes and skills to make Solid Solid accessible to everyone. The company currently includes Berners-Lee, Bruce, a security platform purchased by IBM, contracted developers hired to work on the project, and a community of volunteer coders.

Starting this week, technology developers around the world could create their own decentralized apps using the tools available on the Inrupt website.

Computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee participates in the PHD Worldwide seminar organized as part of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on June 23, 2015 in Cannes, France. Berners-Lee is launching a new startup that, he hopes, will compete with the giants of the Internet, Google and Facebook.
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Berners-Lee said that he and his team were not discussing with Facebook and Google the opportunity to introduce a complete change in which all their business models were completely changed overnight. We do not ask them permission.

In a post published on Medium on Saturday, Berners-Lee wrote that "Inrupt's mission is to provide commercial energy and an ecosystem to help protect the integrity and quality of the new Solid-built Web site.

In 1994, Berners-Lee transformed the Internet when he created the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In recent months, Berners-Lee has been an influential voice in the net neutrality debate.

Even with the launch of Inrupt, Berners-Lee will remain the founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the Web Foundation and the Open Data Institute.

"I am incredibly optimistic for this new era of the web," said Berners-Lee.