EDINBURGH — The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not ‘part of the internet model,’ he said in Edinburgh. He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter ‘a dark period’. Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web. ‘What’s very important from my point of view is that there is one web,’ he said. ‘Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.’ An equal net The British scientist developed the web in 1989 as an academic tool to allow scientists to share data. Since then it has exploded into every area of life. You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for Tim Berners-Lee. However, as it has grown, there have been increasingly diverse opinions on how it should […]