In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web to open the internet to the masses. His life-changing invention of HTTP and URLs paved the way for the massive network of data we interact with ...

Thirty years ago this week Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website and kicked off the World Wide Web. Today the web is ubiquitous and has had widespread impacts on the way we live, communicate, ...

Well, it didn't, exactly. As with many inventions, in order to understand how today's Web developed, you have to look farther back than its official introduction. The seeds of the Web were planted ...

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