The Story of the Web
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) was not looking to create the world’s biggest techno-social phenomenon, but it was in fact here, in the late 80s that Tim Berners-Lee grappled with an acute problem. Scientific research often involves a large number of references to other works and so as you moved from one paper to the next following a logical link, there was a lot of hunting of the relevant papers involved. Even if you hypothetically put all the relevant research in an electronic format in the same hard drive, it would still take a lot of effort to locate a reference in another paper. Berners-Lee’s vision was to create a standard language for linking them physically ...
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