The inventor of the World Wide Web realizes his progressive innovation is transitioning, and doesn’t constantly like what he sees: state-supported hacking, online provocation, abhor discourse and falsehood among the ills of its “digital adolescence.”

Tim Berners-Lee issued a cri-de-coeur letter and addressed a couple of reporters Monday on the eve of the 30-year anniversary of his first paper with a framework of what might turn into the web — an initial move toward changing incalculable lives and the worldwide economy.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, plans to host Berners-Lee and other web aficionados on Tuesday. “We’re celebrating, but we’re also very concerned,” Berners-Lee said.

Toward the end of last year, a key limit was crossed — generally a large portion of the world has gotten online. Today somewhere in the range of 2 billion websites exist.

The anniversary offers “an opportunity to reflect on how far we have yet to go,” Berners-Lee said, calling the “fight” for the web “one of the most important causes of our time.”

He is persuaded the online populace will keep on grow, yet says accessibility issues continue to beset much of the world.

“Look at the 50 percent who are on the web, and it’s not so pretty for them,” he said. “They are all stepping back suddenly horrified after the Trump and Brexit elections realizing that this web thing that they thought was so cool has actually not necessarily been serving humanity very well.”

The anniversary is likewise a gesture to the imaginative, cooperative and open-source outlook at the Geneva-based CERN, where physicists crush particles together to unlock secrets of science and the universe.

As a youthful English programming engineer, Berners-Lee came up with the idea for hypertext-exchange protocol — the “http” that adorns web addresses — and other building blocks for the web while working at CERN in March 1989. Some trace the actual start of the web to 1990, when he released the first web browser.

Berners-Lee thought back about how he was truly out to inspire divergent computer systems to talk to one another, and resolve the “burning frustration” over an “lack of interoperability” of documentation from unique computing systems used at CERN in the late 1980s.

Presently, the expectation of his World Wide Web Foundation is to enroll governments, companies, and residents to play a more prominent job in forming the web for good under principles laid out in its “Contract for the Web.”

Under the agreement’s general, broad ambition, governments should ensure everybody can connect to the internet, to keep it accessible and to regard privacy. Organizations are to make the internet affordable, respect privacy and develop technology that will put people — and the “public good” — first. Citizens are to create and to cooperate and respect “civil discourse,” among other things.

To Berners-Lee, the web is a “mirror of humanity” where “you will see good and bad.”

“The Contract for the Web recognizes that whether humanity, in fact, is constructive or not actually depends on the way you write the code of the social network,” he said.