Digital Cats Will Change the World
On the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee confirmed what we all secretly believed. Asked by journalist Samira Ahmed,1 “Did you think there would be so many cats on the web?” Berners-Lee replied, “That was the plan all along, to fill the web with cat videos.” Joking aside, the social aspect of the internet is something that was not immediately foreseen when the technology started to infiltrate our homes. The earliest use of the World Wide Web reflected our habits and activities at the time, making them arguably more efficient and accessible, but fundamentally unchanged. We sent e-mails or set up web pages instead of sending letters (in my case and for many others these did, in fairness, ...
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