Tim Berners-Lee is in the news. He is touted as the father of the World Wide Web, which has just turned twenty-five. He was at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) at the time, and he wrote a paper about information management that ushered the revolution in web development. Much followed without any guidance or oversight. Now fifty-eight, he is teaching at MIT and the University of Southampton. On the web’s anniversary, everyone wants to talk to him about his thoughts concerning the past and the future. He remembers the key decision of CERN management in 1993 that royalties would never be charged for using the web. As for the future, he has helped put together a platform where people can discuss the future development of the web (webwewant.org). But his main goal is to make the web available to more people. As he points out, less than a half of the world’s population uses it at present. This is where I agree with him quite strongly. One thing is freedom, and the other is accessibility. Various attempts to control the web can be countered by clever design, but its availability is ultimately thwarted by poverty. Vast areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are still out of reach. This is a challenge worth pondering in the years to come. The web we want.