Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation

On the better web Berners-Lee envisions, users control where their data is stored and how it’s accessed.
Berners-Lee is working to make this a reality through an open source project called Solid. He hopes to create an open technology standard that different applications can use to share data, regardless of what that data is or what type of application needs to read it. Such a standard would enable applications—your hospital’s record-keeping software or a social network—to read and write data from the servers you choose and control, rather than the servers that belong to an individual company.
It succeeded because of the work he and so many others put into stewarding it as a platform.