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The of the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has spoken about his 25 years after he helped to conceive it. He said it has been a for good, but it also has a negative . Mr Berners-Lee was speaking to the BBC at London's Science Museum. He said: "Everywhere I look I see a of energy, a amount of energy, and also in some places, they are using the web for organised against oppressive regimes." He also lamented the growing use of the Internet for and negativity. He said: "It's staggering to me that people who must have been brought up like anybody will suddenly become very polarised in their opinions and will suddenly become very instead of very loving."

Berners-Lee was at the Science Museum to view an part of Internet history. The museum will house the server that hosted the first ever website. It is part of a new called the Information Age. The machine still has a on it written by Berners-Lee that warns: "This machine is a server. Do not power it down." Berners-Lee is the director of an organisation called the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the Web's continued . Talking about the of the Internet, he said: "Maybe we will be able to build web-based that help us keep people on the path of rather than fighting." He hopes the Web will remain "a for change".

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