Sir Tim Berners-Lee creator of the World Wide Web has used its 25^th anniversary to call for bill of rights to protect users.

Speaking about the importance of the proposed bill, the WWW inventor told television’s BBC Breakfast security could become as big an issue as human rights.

Following revelations on government surveillance from ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Berners-Lee said people should protest against surveillance.

“The web itself should be something [we] can use to communicate, and feel like [we] are communicating without someone either stopping us, blocking us or the feeling that we know someone is looking over our shoulder,” Berners-Lee said.

GFI Software’s general manager of the infrastructure business unit, Sergio Galindo said managing the web is the “most contentious” subject that has emerged during the life span of the WWW.

“While governments, lobbyists, ISPs and other parties argue for and against censoring, one thing is clear: wholesale web censorship at source is an inflexible and inefficient approach to information management that will never be 100% accurate and will be extremely difficult to reverse when sites are inaccurately censored.”

Speaking to DCD Focus last year, CERN’s head of the communications system group Jean-Michael Jouanigot said his first responsibility was to help build the first internet communications in Europe.

“It was really the beginning of the internet-it was an amazing time,” Jouanigot said.

WWW has seen a host of changes over the past quarter of a century, some which have changed our lives dramatically. These changes include holding conference calls connecting different sectors of business, being able to email customers and potential clients, connecting with them in real time and blogging.

WWW: Timeline of events

1989-
The World Wide Web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN

1991-
The first website was built by Sir Tim Berners-Lee

1993-
WWW technology made available on a royalty-free basis
First primitive search engine ‘W3catalog’ created

1994-
Yahoo! founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo
Amazon Incorporated as Cadabra by Jeff P.Bezos
First Ecommerce transaction via website NetMarket
First web banner sold by HotWired to AT&T

1995-
First eBay item sold

1998-
Google founded by Larry page and Sergey Brin

2001-
Wikipedia created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

2002-
First social network ‘Friendster’ created

2003-
LinkedIn launched
Skype launched

2004-
The Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerburg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes

2005-
Reddit founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
YouTube founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim

2006-
Facebook becomes an open system
Twitter created and launched by Jack Dorsey

2010-
Instagram launched
Quora made publically available

2011-
Google+ launched